In an ancient Greek city on Turkey’s Aegean coast, archaeologists have uncovered a small clay pot filled with Persian gold coins buried about 2,400 years ago. The hidden stash looks like royal pay for ...
Machine generated contents note: 2.1. The Persians -- 2.1.1. Parsua and Parsumash -- 2.1.2. Kurash of Parsumash -- 2.2. The Indigenous Population of the Iranian Plateau: The Elamites -- 2.3. The ...
The Achaemenid Empire rose from a small Persian kingdom to the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. Through ...
Legal dispute over Persepolis tablets threatens international lending of cultural assets. [ briefs ] In 1930, archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld came across 30,000 clay tablets on a dig in the ancient city ...
The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian ...
From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian ...
In Western history, Persians are exotic and malevolent “Others.” The fantasy film 300 (2006) is an extreme example. For many modern Americans, Persians are the Bad Guys. The first great Persian empire ...
The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r. 522 486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the ...