The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images ...

Two titans of ancient conquest go head-to-head! Join us as we compare Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great across five crucial categories: rise to power, military accomplishments, impact, wealth, ...

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

and which was very nearly destroyed in the mid-seventh century by the Islamic tide that swept away the Persian empire and reduced the Roman domain to what we now call the “Byzantine Empire”. Elton ...