The Persian Empire, founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great, became one of history’s most powerful and influential empires. At its height, it spanned three continents,covering parts of ...

The legendary Macedonian King Alexander III, famously known as Alexander the Great (who was educated by the titanic Greek ...

Alexander the Great is one of the best-known figures in world history. He only lived until age 32, dying in Babylon. But ...

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

Alexander the Great's siege of the island city of Tyre used all the innovation and cunning worthy of a conqueror still known ...

This is where Alexander launched his famous invasion of the Persian Empire. Without denying Alexander’s greatness, it’s important to remember that he was using his father’s army, and that ...

In light of the recent conflict between Israel and Iran, military spending in the region is ramping up. Fighter jets and ...

In the wake of the recent conflict between Israel and Iran, the question of military strength in the Middle East has been at ...

The notion of “cupbearer” is central to Persian Bacchic poetry. The cupbearer appears in descriptions of convivial courtly gatherings from the earliest specimens of Persian poetry, usually as a young ...

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.