He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

However, both Darius and his son Xerxes came unstuck in their efforts to defeat independent Greece and thereafter their heirs were more concerned with keeping their vast empire together than ...

South Asia was once the eastern part of the Ancient Greek world, a pivotal yet little explored part of the Greek empire and ...

Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. It was to be his 'divine punishment' for his father Darius' crushing defeat at Marathon in 490 BC. Now, a decade later, he had spared no ...

Here, in the Battle of Issus, Alexander's army of 75,000 Greeks faced Darius' vastly superior force of approximately 600,000 Persian troops. These ancient written sourced troop numbers are likely ...

Greek and Roman authors weren’t interested ... You can’t understand Alexander if you don’t understand Darius, the last king of the Persian Empire.” Not for nothing is one of his books ...