Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...

Darius wished to concentrate as much of that power as possible in one place to overwhelm Alexander’s much smaller force. We cannot know the exact numbers of the Persian army as our sources tend ...

It was to be his 'divine punishment' for his father Darius' crushing defeat at Marathon ... By the spring of 480 Xerxes' army had reached Macedonia in the north of Greece. In response a contingent ...

A rare 2,500-year-old inscription, bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great, was found in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said. The inscription, which was ...