Propaganda is not what it used to be. These days, a crummy movie like “2000 Mules,” a big cinematic lie about the Big Lie that rampant voter fraud denied the reelection of the last U.S. president, is ...

The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

The Ancients host Tristan Hughes and ancient historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones debate some wild theories about Ancient Persia. In this episode of Agree to Disagree, the two historians discuss; 00:00 ...

Legal dispute over Persepolis tablets threatens international lending of cultural assets. [ briefs ] In 1930, archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld came across 30,000 clay tablets on a dig in the ancient city ...

Although it has remained for 2,500 years a collection of toppled columns, ornate but broken sculptures of majestic bulls, and eroded carvings of subjects bearing tributes, Persepolis in its ruins is a ...

Correction: The original version of this article misquoted Jeffrey Spier as saying the Getty Villa has mostly Greek, Roman and Tuscan classical art. In fact, the Getty Villa has mostly Greek, Roman ...

The Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BC -- Map -- Time Line of Achaemenid Kings -- Persia Before the Persians / Timothy Potts -- Shifting Identities in Pre-Achaemenid Iran: Elamites, Medes, and Persians / ...

Invasions of ancient Persia were always daunting tasks. They often led to disaster. In the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, the Persian empire came to dominate a vast and varied geography with Iran at its ...

An inscription bearing the name of a Persian king is "not authentic," the Israel Antiquities Authority said. In a demonstration, an expert in ancient inscriptions had etched the words into the shard ...

Making its US debut is a football-sized, barrel-shaped ancient clay cylinder covered with Babylonian cuneiform, one of the earliest written languages, that announced Cyrus's victory and his intention ...