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 ...

President Donald Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the United States will now refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, according to ...

T he director of the CHTO’s Historical Sites Research Center said on Tuesday that a team of experts is collecting the necessary information, which will later be edited and added to the map.

The people of eastern Iran, known as the White Huns, plundered parts of eastern Persia in the fifth century. (See the face of a man from the last days of the Roman Empire.) A relief at the Naqsh-e ...

His ascension to king of the Persian Empire was cloaked in intrigue. It’s thought he may have staged a coup to claim the throne. Some Persians viewed Darius as a usurper, and many subjects in ...

It depicts a driver and probably a satrap - a governor of the Persian Empire. Satraps kept the peace, regulated the law and collected taxes in one of the empire's administrative provinces.