The difference in ancient paradises reveals a shared human desire for a perfect afterlife, though the details vary ...

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

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

In a world of shifting borders and fleeting regimes, one truth remains enduring: civilizations remember. Unlike nation-states ...

American foreign policy in West Asia is a textbook example of adolescent overreach: short attention spans, cyclical memory, a belief in shortcuts to regime change, and an almost allergic reaction to ...

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?

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

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