the road to the Persian heartland lay open. There was no Achaemenid army that could be brought to oppose Alexander and his Macedonians. The rich capitals of the Achaemenid Empire lay exposed to a ...

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

Achaemenid sources record the name Artasata ... We cannot know the exact numbers of the Persian army as our sources tend to give unreliably large figures, but it is likely Darius outnumbered ...

However, Persepolis successfully drained a significant volume of water thanks to its underground channels, originally constructed during the Achaemenid era and known as the Achaemenid water ... in 330 ...

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...