The Achaemenid Empire, also known as the First Persian Empire, was one of the largest and most significant empires in ancient history. Founded around the mid-6th century BC by Cyrus...
What was referred to as ancient Persia is estimated to have stretched from the Persian Gulf all the way to the Euphrates River. The empire ranks up there as one...
From a typical Western history perspective, Xerxes I comes off as the bad guy whose sole goal was to bring ancient Greeks to their knees and wipe out every trace...
