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 ...

He is credited with expanding the Persian Empire, organizing it into 20 provinces, and creating both a unified currency and standard system of weights and measures. Also during his time, he directed ...

It found that during the Achaemenid Persian empire, between 559 and 330 BCE, the name Pars Sea was widely used in written texts, denoting Persian influence over the area.

An expert on both the Macedonian and the Achaemenid (Persian) empires, and author of A short introduction: Alexander the Great, Briant bristles at the idea that Alexander achieved something that ...

Vienna: Ugarit-Verlag. Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art. 2020. "The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550--330 B.C.)." in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...

Titled "Persian Feasts" — and rest assured that the jubilant, convivial recipes inside do indeed live up to that name — the ...