At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

Preston Damsky, 29, is a white nationalist and an antisemite. He is also a law student at the University of Florida. He recently won an award for a paper on “originalism,” the theory that interprets ...

After Alexander the Great’s death, ... who had crossed the Indus River—the farthest frontier of the old Persian empire— with his armies sometime around 325 B.C.

Vergina, Greece is a small, unassuming town in modern times, but it played a crucial role in the ancient world as Aigai. Then ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi warned military personnel that it was their "final chance" to stand up against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime. Pahlavi also urged the international community to let ...

Tel Aviv and Washington will lose this battle with Tehran, and that failure will have a catalytic impact on peoples across ...

From Cyrus to Alexander : a history of the Persian Empire by Briant, Pierre. Publication date 2002 Topics Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C, Iran -- History -- To 640 Publisher Winona Lake, IN : ...

Why has Iran never been fully subdued, colonized, or occupied long-term? The answer lies in a potent mix of geography, ...

Picture Alexander the Great alive today. How would his colossal wealth stack up against the likes of modern-day moguls?

“Let not the one who girds on his armor boast like the one who takes it off” ( 1 Kings 20:11 ) ...

Cyrus, known as king of kings or Shahenshah, is remembered particularly by Jewish and Christian scholars for his support for ...