The Cyrus Cylinder is often considered the first charter of human rights, inscribed with the words of King Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

Today marks one year since a teenager was gunned down on the streets of Little Rock, and police still have not made any arrests in the case. Decree Thomas was just 14-years-old when he shot to ...

The history of Iranian-Israeli relations shows how ancient alliances can turn into modern conflicts, but maybe now is the ...

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — ...

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion today drew a parallel between the declaration by the Persian King Cyrus permitting the Babylonian Jews to return to Palestine in the sixth century B. C. E. and the ...

To the ancient Greeks and Mesopotamians, the Persians were the neighbors from hell. There was an exception: Cyrus the Great, who launched the Persian Empire by conquering Babylon in 539 B.C. He ...

It is not hard to conceive that the prime minister of Israel is a serial liar. He is masterfully adept at fooling some of the people, some of the time.

When the Persian King Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. he issued an unprecedented decree recognizing religious freedom and the rights of enslaved and exiled peoples. His words were ...