Alexander the Great and Cyrus the Great both share the role of featuring in important Jewish prophecies. What exactly do ...

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

When Alexander the Great visited the tomb of Cyrus of Persia, he found it ransacked and ordered that the tomb be restored.

On Instagram, David teased the show and took his followers behind the scenes of the set, which featured burnt orange velvet chairs and a Persian rug ... to build a fashion empire — and now ...

In the end, this small band of POWs and deserters, whose strength was seen by Leon Trotsky as the chief threat to Soviet rule, helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia.

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire ... Maps. CC BY 1.0/flickr It was there that the Persians suffered under their great numbers. This led to their being ...

Under Cyrus, the Persian Empire became the hegemonic power in the East. Despite beginning his reign as a vassal king subject to the Median Empire, which he would later conquer, Cyrus was fierce ...

Cyrus the Second of Persia as he was known then was born in the sixth century BCE in Persis which is now in Iran. He was the founder of the first Persian Empire, the largest empire at that point ...

Late on Friday, Ironclad and Stardock released the first hotfix for Sins of a Solar Empire II since its Steam release to fix a few issues that have cropped up, along with some new maps.

of rivers and canals Map reveals how much it would have cost to travel on roads and seas across the empire in 200 CE It calculates the route based on the season, or mode of transport chosen - and ...