Whether motivated by politics or drunken revelry, the destruction of Persepolis haunted its conqueror until the end of his ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

Athens’ victory at Marathon sparked fear that drove expansion and the fragile evolution of Athenian democracy.

Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of the pharaoh — including during the time of King ...

An Iranian archaeologist said a Sassanid-era inscription referring to the calendar of a royal festival has recently been ...

Archaeologists uncover a 2,500-year-old Iron Age site in Afghanistan, revealing stone structures, a drikning vessel and early ...

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to Southeast Europe. The Achaemenid Empire controlled a vast area ...

Does Egypt’s most famous tomb hide a secret of ancient drug use? For over a hundred years, the alabaster jars in the burial ...

Persepolis is an ancient city that once served as the capital of the mighty Achaemenid Empire. Persepolis is the Greek name for ‘Parsa’, and both these names mean ‘Persian City’ or ‘City of the ...

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

Following the conquest of Persia by the Arabs, the region lost its significance as the center of an empire, it was now a mere province in the larger Islamic Empire. The decline of the Abbasid ...