Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction in 396 AD ...

Imagine a play by a contemporary American playwright examining the war in Afghanistan from the point of view of Taliban leaders grieving their losses. No luck? This superhuman leap of sympathetic ...

Coronation of Ardashir I, founder of the Sassanian Empire in a relief at Naqsh-e Rostam / photo Ginolerhino 2002 on Wikimedia Commons A comparison of the size of armies throughout history, carried out ...

Aesychlus' "Persians" gets a simultaneously avant-garde and classical treatment at the Getty Villa in Malibu By Myron Meisel Persians Still - H 2014 Essentially the ancient-world equivalent of a story ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Persians gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference had an urgent message for President ...

Ancient Persians were the first to use chemical weapons when they gassed Roman soldiers with toxic fumes 2,000 years ago, researchers have discovered. 14 January 2009 • 3:34pm Archeologists have found ...

You could say that The Persians, which was written in 472 BC, was the first docudrama. Its author, Aeschylus, is best known as a playwright and poet -- but the only words on his tombstone describe him ...