A study of Persia’s Royal Highway uncovers how the Achaemenids built roads to support the empire's royal machinery across ...

The Achaemenid Empire rose from a small Persian kingdom to the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. Through ...

The department introduced language courses and coursework in Persian literature, cinema, art, history and cultural studies as ...

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...

New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about how urban civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, proposing that ...

Salehi said that nearly 40,000 individuals have studied the Persian language in Turkey over recent decades, indicating strong ...

Researchers analyzing an extremely rare Egyptian alabastron inscribed with the name of Persian ruler Xerxes I have discovered traces of opium within the ancient vessel, suggesting that the narcotic ...

Banners in Israel have merged, calling Trump 'Cyrus the Great' as Gaza peace plan starts, linking him to the Persian king who ...

The rest of Iran remains mired in poverty. Public expressions of criticism or calls for economic relief are met with violent IRGC suppression of such heretical talk. It gets worse. Iran has long been ...

For this reason, Cyrus became (and remains) a legendary figure in Jewish history, though he was not Jewish himself. He was more likely a devotee of Zoroastrianism, which was fervently embraced by his ...