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

American foreign policy in West Asia is a textbook example of adolescent overreach: short attention spans, cyclical memory, a ...

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — ...

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

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

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

Picture Alexander the Great alive today. How would his colossal wealth stack up against the likes of modern-day moguls?

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

The conflicts that followed brought the Persian and Greek worlds closer together and set the stage for a drastic reshaping of ...

In addition to co-editing and directing the book with Anastasia Paillard, Dr. Shahryari’s own article in the volume, Réemplois, réutilisations et références au sein de l’administration perse ...