At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander ... conquer the Persian Empire. “You can’t speak of Alexander alone ...

The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images from ... a invasion of the Persian Empire, winning a crucial victory ...

For more than four centuries the Sassanians dominated western Asia, expanding their empire and gaining lands ... was originally established by the ancient Persian kings, and lies near Persepolis ...

in 539 B.C. (Babylon was the jewel of the ancient world.) After Cyrus came to power in 559 B.C., Persia expanded its holdings to become the world’s original empire. Previously, other peoples ...

300: Rise of an Empire shamelessly indulges this demonization of the Persian—of the alien, dangerous “Other.” That’s far removed from the way many of the ancient Greeks saw their world at ...

This indicates that the hoard is a collection of darics, a form of currency used in the ancient Persian Empire. Front and back views of a daric, a form of currency used in the ancient Persian Empire.

The ongoing excavation of an ancient Greek ... and the Roman Empire but also of hundreds of years earlier, when tension was high between the Greek civilization and the Persian Empire.