Ancient Iran was home to numerous exceptionally powerful kings throughout history. This was particularly so in the era of the ...

The sanctuary of Demeter and Kore and the Telestrion, where the initiation rites took place for the Eleusinian Mysteries. Eleusis, Greece. Credit: Carole Raddato / CC BY-SA 2.0 Eleusis, the site of ...

According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and ...

In the first known interaction between the two nations, the ancient Persians freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

Cimon was a statesman and general who died conquering the Persians in Cyprus, but his men abandoned the siege to give him a ...

At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

Some parts of it were what you might call “visibly invisible”: Everyone in Tehran knows about Evin Prison, perched on the ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

In the original Purim story, through a series of serendipitous events — Mordechai saves the Persian Emperor’s life from would-be assassins of the palace guard, Esther becomes the Persian ...

US News: Explore how Donald Trump's long-standing issues with Iran stem from personal humiliation during the 1980 Iran hostage crisis, influencing his foreign policy decisions. Discover the ...

Six months before the United States launched Operation Iraqi Freedom to disarm Iraq and remove the regime of Saddam Hussein, then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld prepared a memorandum ...