During the period of the Greco-Persian Wars, Plovdiv was part of the Persian Empire. From 516 BCE, it was incorporated into the empire of Darius the Great. Power fluctuated back and forth as Persia ...

The ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Anatolia flourished and enjoyed a long period of glory forging a successful alliance ...

In November 333 B.C., Alexander the Great confronted the Persian king Darius III Codomannus in the second major battle between their armies. This victory followed the earlier one in the previous year ...

Darius the great the fourth king of the Achaemenid Persian empire stretching from the Caucasus and West Asia to the Balkans in south eastern Europe and even to Egypt and North Africa before the ...

The first three years of the competition were strictly between Ghana and Nigeria, both in basketball and in the jollof ...

In 499–494 B.C.E., the Greek cities of Eretria and Athens stoked an uprising in Ionia against the Persian Empire, triggering the anger of Emperor Darius. The Greeks fought against the Achaemenid ...

Ancient Greek statues and artistic treasures housed in Paris museums depict the Greeks' influence on the entire European continent.

By the 5th century BCE, the Persian king Darius 1 had built the Royal Road, a dramatic 2,400-km highway that linked Sardis in the west of the empire to Susa, the capital. He had snatched the throne, ...

Columbia Professor Richard A. Billows, in his book Before and After Alexander, sheds light on unseen aspects of the legendary ...