The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

Throughout the arid regions of Iran, agricultural and permanent settlements are supported by the ancient qanat system of tapping alluvial aquifers at the heads of valleys and conducting the water ...

A Hebrew translation was the basis for a popular version in medieval Europe. The holy book of ancient Persia’s quasi-monotheistic creed survives as a sprawling collection of fragments—an ...