TEHRAN - Nagarechi Hill situated in Nahavand country of Hamedan province is emerging as a pivotal archaeological site that ...

However, in 167 BCE, the army of the Seleucid empire of King Antiochus IV Epiphanes conquered the kingdom of Judah and took over the Temple, turning it into a place of worship for the Greek god ...

At the time, Parthia was a satrapy (province) under Andragoras, a rebel against the Seleucid Empire. Under Mithridates I (r. c. 171–132 BC), the empire significantly expanded, seizing Media and ...