The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

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During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

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This year's theme is Heritage under Threat from Disasters and Conflicts: Preparedness and Learning from 60 Years of ICOMOS ...

In 1071, a small nomadic dynasty—named the Seljuks after their founder—fought a battle against Byzantine forces under the ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

We’ve been looking at the way the kingdom of God that Jesus proclaimed was the development of perhaps the central theme of ...

The Seleucid Empire, founded by one of Alexander ... erected it to commemorate a Roman victory in the Persian Wars in A.D. 233. Businessmen in the boondocks often flattered their Roman overlords ...

The Roman historian Plutarch tells us that ... in preparation for his planned invasion of the Persian Empire. I visit the place with Ioannes Graekos, an affable archaeologist who used to ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

Rocky cliffs on Iceland's Coast (Image Credit: EricLiu08/Shutterstock) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of factors, recent research has suggested that an ice age began ...