After the Trojan War, some of the Athenian troops were said to have been blown off course, leading to the founding of Scione.

Alexander the Great and Cyrus the Great both share the role of featuring in important Jewish prophecies. What exactly do ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC ... sometimes they joined together to fight against a bigger enemy, like the Persian Empire. Only a very powerful ruler could control all Greece.

Mesoamerica: During the 5th and 6th centuries BC, the ancient Olmec civilization ... before Rome absorbed the Greek city-states into its own empire in 146 BC. The Persian Empire: Asia & Egypt ...

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

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

During excavation in the ancient Greek city of Notion ... a category of gold coins that was minted by the Persian Empire at ...

Focuses either on Persia, Greece, or Rome and includes a particular emphasis ... Emphasizes life, letters, and personalities of the empire. All ancient texts are read in English translation. Surveys ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC ... sometimes they joined together to fight against a bigger enemy, like the Persian Empire. Only a very powerful ruler could control all Greece.