Experience the rise of the First Persian Empire in stunning visual form - this video uses Google Earth to map out how Cyrus the Great and his successors built an empire from Lydia to the Indus Valley.

The sight of vast graves opening and the undead clawing out should unnerve us all. But we haven’t even noticed. As more blood flows than any horror film offers, it’s brought the hope of eternal life ...

Some 2,500 years ago, an elite army named the “Immortals” by Herodotus consisted of a heavy infantry of 10,000 men, that never reduced in number or strength. The first Persian Empire (550 B.C.–330 B.C ...

From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian Empire—also known as the Achaemenid Empire—expanded to become the largest the ...

Titled Coinages in the Achaemenid Empire, the book is the final contribution of the late Emeritus Professor Keith Rutter of the University of Edinburgh, a world-renowned specialist in ancient ...

The title of this exhibition is a bit misleading. Forgotten Empire, the British Museum calls its spectacular resurrection of ancient Persia. Yet the Persians are as notorious in their way as Darth ...