BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...

WHAT: "Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia" at London's British Museum. WHEN: Now through Jan. 8. HOW MUCH: About $14.40. WHY GO: Two and a half millenniums before it got lumped into the ...

From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian Empire—also known as the Achaemenid Empire—expanded to become the largest the ...

As Minnesotans with shared roots in one of history’s great civilizations — Iran — we write in the wake of pivotal events reshaping the Middle East. Ali was born in Tehran and came to the U.S. just ...