My first 100 turns with Sid Meier's Civilization VII proved that this series is as good of a storytelling engine as ever.

Gerard Butler reveals the intense injuries sustained by the cast of 300, including himself, during the film's ostensibly ...

When it comes to historical and archaeological finds, few things spark our curiosity quite like the adventures of Alexander ...

Xerxes the Great was the fourth King of Kings who ruled the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Known in the modern day for fighting the Greeks, as well as for for his battle-hardened feats and massive stone ...

History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their ...

This course focuses on central topics in Persian language and society. The topics are related to past or ongoing research in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, such as; Persian ...

I’ve always wondered what Esther was thinking on the first night she invited her husband, the King of Persia, and Haman, a high-ranking senior official in the King’s court, to dinner. That night she ...

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown ... make it though to the end and pick up almost every single chest, sand jar, Xerxes coin, etc. As someone who's really disliked every AC game since II ...

Alongside the miracle of light from Hanukkah, I grew up celebrating Shab-e Yalda, the ancient Persian winter solstice tradition. The mystics believed that on the year’s longest and darkest night — ...

Seismic change arrived in the region when the Persian Empire moved into Thrace ... The political vacuum that was created by Xerxes’s defeat and retreat was filled by the Odrysians, which ...

Players rated their experience of the rules against a similar game. (Jelveh and Moradi, Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 2024) Reaching its peak in the third millennium BCE, ...

Researchers in Turkey have finally pinpointed the exact location of the legendary Battle of Granicus, where Alexander the Great won his first significant battle in his pursuit of Asia Minor.