Darius the Great, the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire, ruled over the Persian Empire when it was at its largest, stretching from The Caucasus and West Asia to what was then Macedonia (today’s Balkans), the Black Sea, Central Asia and even into Africa including parts of Libya and Eg...
Explore the timeless remains of Darius the Great’s Persepolis and Pasargadae, the resting place of the founder of the Persian Empire Discover the heart of Persian culture in Shiraz, from famous gardens to beautiful teahouses Watch the sunset from Yazd’s Zoroastrian burial towers, known as th...
Herodotos asserts that King Dareios attacked the Skythians in order to take vengeance for the period of 28 years of Skythian domination in the Near East; in these terms he expressed the idea that the Persian Empire could not ever feel secure as long as it had not reduced the Skythians t...
In front of us, we see the extensive Achaemenid empire (green), stretching from the Indus in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Beyond the Aegean Sea, almost at the left edge of this map, we see a green area that consists of several islands and city-states, which have no...
In addition to this, there is a historical legend that narrates the intimate relationship between the sultanate of Samudera Pasai and the Langkasuka kingdom during the reign of King Bharubhasa/Sultan Mahmud, where this cooperation had given birth to the 'Chermin Empire' in 1339 CE which ...
During the reign of the Persian Seleucid Empire, the Babylonians used ‘Goal Year’ tests to predict the motions of planets, and devised elaborate mathematical functions to predict cosmological phenomena, without consulting past records. This must have strengthened the link between astronomy and astrolo...
Persiaremained largely impenetrable to English-speaking travelers well into the 19th century. Persia was protected from Europe by overland trade routes that passed through territory inhospitable to foreigners, while trade at Persian ports in thePersian Gulfwas in the hands of locals. In contrast, intr...
And also to get international powers, who now otherwise will end up in conflict—the United States, the whole British Empire, in conflict with Russia, China—through a world war.This was the original idea, and then we had a discussion about how we could deal with the ex...
Click on the Iran Linguistic Composition map to learn more about Persian (Farsi) Language Three phases may be distinguished in the development of Iranian languages: Old, Middle, and Modern. Old Iranian is represented by Avestan and Old Persian. Avestan, probably spoken in the northeast of ancie...
Discover the old Middle East with Ancient names and Modern names in one map. “How big was Iran?” 2500 years ago Persian Empire was created by Cyrus the Great by uniting Meds, Persians and all states and tribes to become the largest empire yet seen and the first world largest empire. ...