Within the depths of an ancient Chehrābād salt mine in Iran, multiple miners met a grisly end thousands of years ago. Over ...

There was no Achaemenid army that could be brought to ... Alexander was forced to contend with the Uxian people. This ...

Titled "Persian Feasts" — and rest assured that the jubilant, convivial recipes inside do indeed live up to that name — the ...

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Second, the Achaemenid empire achieved a greater quantitative and qualitative unification of the Near East than had any previous multinational polity. For the first time people of Central Asia beyond ...

As a member of the Iranian Assyrian community - the oldest Christian community in Iran - his story not only reflects his ...

Achaemenid relations with kindred peoples to the east are ... The Arsacids were the leaders of the Parthians, an Iranian people who followed a pastoral way of life southeast of the Caspian Sea. They ...

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People who are genuinely big-hearted with their time and efforts have a healthy self-regard, they know what they value as well as what gives them meaning. A people-pleaser, however, does not have ...

Archaeologists first thought the Salt Men dated to around 550-330BC, around the time of Persia’s Achaemenid Dynasty, the first empire to rule over the region. But a new study suggests humans may ...

It was one of the richest and most populous regions of ancient Afghanistan under the Achaemenid Empire in the ... "Basically, the people were clearing out vast areas to make it easier to loot ...