The Wars of Alexander's successors, were a series of conflicts that erupted among the generals of Alexander the Great.

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

The stories aren’t road maps to the future ... Still, he points to ancient Greece, and the commentary of Thucydides, the Athenian historian who lived in the 5th century BC.

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

Before our modern borders, the oldest countries in the Middle East were out here building pyramids, writing the first laws, ...

Firaxis knows this, which is presumably why the Persian paragon has two alternate ... leaders who cultivate happiness throughout their empire. His food production also increases with excess ...

One particularly popular theory among scholars is that Plato’s account of Atlantis was just his way of creating an allegory about the Persian, or Achaemenid ... proponents of this theory claim that ...

The core of the game remains choosing a leader and guiding your people through the eras of history in a randomly generated Earth-like map ... ancient Greece, or Napoleon to take charge of Persia.

More than 300 million people in Iran and beyond celebrate the ancient holiday. It’s tied to the spring equinox and has roots in the Persian Empire. Here’s what to know.