Volume of annual tribute per district, in the Achaemenid Empire. [1] [2] [3] ...

The Achaemenid dynasty’s Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire, was one of the largest ancient states. The dynasties succeeded one another, and the conquests connected a landmass far ...

Immortals or Persian Immortals was the name given by Herodotus to an elite heavy infantry unit of 10,000 soldiers in the army of the Achaemenid Empire. The unit served in a dual capacity, through its ...

AMMAN — Achaemenid Empire (559 BC – 330 BC) exercised political influence in the Levant but a few monuments remained in this part of the Middle East that were typical for Achaemenid architecture.

The tablets, inscribed primarily in Elamite cuneiform and Aramaic, vary in shape and size and provide crucial insights into the management of resources, infrastructure, social relations, basic needs, ...

The tablets, inscribed primarily in Elamite cuneiform and Aramaic, vary in shape and size and provide crucial insights into the management of resources, infrastructure, social relations, basic needs, ...

Exploring the 10 oldest countries in the world reveals the deep historical roots of civilizations like Iran, Egypt, China, ...

The rivalry between Rome and Carthage for control of the western Mediterranean culminated in the three Punic Wars, fought ...

The J Paul Getty Museum presents Ancient Thrace and the Classical World: Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece, an ...

The former Achaemenid satrapies of Sogdiana and Bactria had only ever been loosely governed by the empire. Alexander’s ...

Found at the ruins of Persepolis, the capital of the Persian Achaemenid Empire which ruled from the 6th to 4th centuries BC in southern Iran, the repatriated tablets reflect how the ancient ...

According to IRNA, historical tablets belonging to Darius I, also known as Darius the Great, who rule the Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC will come back from the US simultaneously with the ...