The effectiveness of Achaemenid imperial rhetoric is demonstrated also in its propagation across vast tracts of land—in addition to the millions of square miles the empire controlled directly, we see ...

The Achaemenid [Persian] Empire was the largest and most durable empire of its time. The empire stretched from Ethiopia, through Egypt, to Greece, to Anatolia ... urban planning, construction ...

The corpus of Persian Achaemenid art, materials, and iconographies is ever increasing. Some contributions are limited to specific classes of materials and focus on specific regions. Nonetheless, for ...

The Achaemenid Empire rose from a small Persian kingdom to the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. Through military brilliance, diplomacy, and administrative innovation, this video ...

PART I. History -- The Achaemenid Empire in the Context of World History (550-330 BCE) / T. Daryaee and Kh. Rezakhani -- Designation of the Empire and Its Political Concepts of Darius I according to ...

Iranian elements in ancient Georgian art and archeology gradually ceased from the 4th century CE when Christianity became the official religion of the Georgian states. The Achaemenid [Persian] Empire ...

The Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) was the largest sociopolitical entity the world had yet seen, incorporating vast areas and widely disparate peoples within its bounds. Yet it remained ...