Before Persia became an empire, it was the land of the Elamites. This episode traces Iran’s early civilizations through the ...
A study of Persia’s Royal Highway uncovers how the Achaemenids built roads to support the empire's royal machinery across ...
The Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BC -- Map -- Time Line of Achaemenid Kings -- Persia Before the Persians / Timothy Potts -- Shifting Identities in Pre-Achaemenid Iran: Elamites, Medes, and Persians / ...
This book by Antonio Panaino discusses the development of the Iranian cosmographical world and its interaction with the Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic civilizations. By undertaking such a study, the ...
The ancient Greek engineer Mandrocles of Samos is credited with creating the Pontoon Bridge, which spanned the Bosphorus Strait.
The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a monumental turning point in the success of Alexander and his invasion of the Persian Empire, leading toward his “the Great” moniker.