In September of the year 490, the Persian forces landed at the sandy harbour of Marathon with an invasion force of 600 ships, 20,000 or more foot soldiers, and 800 cavalry. Also with them was the ...

"The decoded inscriptions state someone made them in the name of the Persian King Darius I," the press release said. "The stele has an inscription in the ancient Persian language. The approximate ...

Darius I, King of Persia, claimed to have accomplished many deeds in the early years of his reign including rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem. The books of Haggai and Zechariah and the Book of Ezra ...

combine to resemble the Persian court robe worn by courtiers, soldiers, and the king himself in reliefs at the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, Persepolis, which was founded by Darius I.

Darius I of Persia annexed the states of Sind and Punjab in northern India in 518 BCE. From then the people of the Indus valley ("Hindush" in Persian) paid tribute to the Persian king in textiles ...

Ancient Greece witnessed numerous significant battles that played pivotal roles in shaping its history and Western ...

A rare 2,500-year-old inscription, bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great, was found in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said. The inscription, which was ...

the man on the Persian throne just before Darius the Great took power in 522 BCE (Darius contended that this man was not a real king but an imposter). The historical record also mentions a Persian ...

The ancient highway was renovated by the Persian King Darius the Great in the 5th century B.C. The road runs about 1,800 miles from Susa, the ancient capital of Persia, to Smyrna on the Aegean Sea.

Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) spent his short life undertaking an enormous military campaign. He defeated the Persian king ...

The Persian king embodied the values of justice, military heroics, and honor, ideals valorized historically and transculturally, yet the influence of the pre-Islamic Persian past and Persian forms of ...

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