Iran, a land of ancient civilizations and rich cultural heritage, is home to some of the world's most fascinating historical ...

The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images ...

A hodgepodge of East and West, Mithridates’ Pontic Empire emerges as a compelling possibility of what Alexander's empire could've been.

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The name refers to the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian empire in history. Greek and Roman geographers ... Today, Google Maps uses the term Persian Gulf, with Arabian Gulf in brackets.

The researchers looked at differences in the ancient genomes and modern-day B. recurrentis to map how the bacteria have changed over time, finding that the species likely diverged from its nearest ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according ... which ...

For archaeologists and historians today, they represent a pivot in the ancient world’s shifting balance between empire and steppe ... the periphery of Greek and Persian consciousness, the ...

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