Discovery News recently published a story in which two Italian archaeologists claimed to have found the remains of the lost army of Cambyses, son of Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, in Egypt. Were ...
As is well known, the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell in 539 BC to the Persians under Cyrus II the Great, and Mesopotamia was never independent again; with Cambyses II, Sealand became just another province ...
In Western history, Persians are exotic and malevolent “Others.” The fantasy film 300 (2006) is an extreme example. For many modern Americans, Persians are the Bad Guys. The first great Persian empire ...