History is full of surprises, and some discoveries challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. The ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

After becoming the King of Macedon at the age of 20 in 336 BCE, Alexander spent only two years in Europe. He defeated and ...

Fars’ deputy chief of cultural heritage has announced that 50 restoration projects are currently in progress across the ...

Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian ... at Persepolis, Susa and Pasargadae, the first capital of the Achaemenid Empire. While in northern ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

Persepolis, in modern-day Iran, is one of the sites where the might of the Achaemenid (Persian) empire can be ... the ruined city where Alexander was born, as well as the tomb of Philip and ...

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Former Liverpool player Ryan Kent has been a free agent since his Fenerbahce contract was terminated in October but he is seemingly closing in on a return to action ...