The Ancient Persian Empire. In Western history, Persians are exotic and malevolent “Others.” The fantasy film 300 (2006) is an extreme example. ... The book is enhanced by a clear map, twenty line ...

A Collection Of Gold Coins Thought To Be Over 2,000-Years-Old And Used In The Ancient Persian Empire Were Discovered In Notion, An Ancient Greek City. Story by Emily Chan • 5mo.

It was achieved later, between 521-516 BCE, when the Persian king Darius I rebuilt the Second Temple (paid by the Persian empire’s treasury) and sent back the articles taken from the Temple.

The ancient Persian capital of Persepolis, in a vast and arid plain 40 miles from Shiraz in southern Iran, is the greatest ancient site between the Holy Land and India.

Made in Constantinople around A.D. 629-630, a period when the Eastern Roman power of Byzantium had surprisingly prevailed in a war against Persia’s Sasanian Empire, the nearly 20-inch plate ...

Front and back views of a daric, a form of currency used in the ancient Persian Empire. A hoard of gold daric coins has been found at the archaeological site of Notion in Turkey.