One of the most memorable images by Greek historian Herodotus depicts Persian King Xerxes ordering the sea to be punished ...

In reality, after the Assyrian captivity from 720 BC and after the Babylonian captivity from 586 BC, there had not been an ...

The Ancients host Tristan Hughes and ancient historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones debate some wild theories about Ancient Persia. In this episode of Agree to Disagree, the two historians discuss; 00:00 ...

What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In the third century CE, a new dynasty known as the Sasanians came to power in ancient Iran. Within a few years, the first Sasanian ...

A claim regarding an unusual manner of debate apparently practiced by ancient Persians has appeared on social media every so often. According to the claim, men in the Persian Empire would debate ideas ...

Not content with trying to rename one body of water, Donald Trump may be planning to rename another. Fresh from unilaterally changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the US president has ...

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