The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

The final land battle between the Persians and the Greeks took place a year later in the region of Boeotia, near the town of Plataeae. During the intervening year the Persian force, now led by the ...

It was a suicide mission, designed to detain the Persians just long enough for the rest of the Greek allies to gather their forces. Led by King Leonidas, the Spartans heroically held the Persians ...

Fact or Fiction: The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) between Greeks and Persians is known for two things: an utter Greek defeat leading to the "Persian Destruction of Athens" and arguably the most ...

The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece a few times but the Greeks managed to fight them off. The Greeks led by Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330s. The Greek foot ...