Object Details author Sharp, R. N (Ralph Norman) writer of introduction Simpson, St John Contents The inscriptions in Old Persian cuneiform of the Achaemenian emperors -- Les inscriptions cunéiformes ...

The late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who hosted the rich and famous at a lavish party amid the ruins in 1971 to commemorate 2,500 years of Iran’s monarchy, had linked his legitimacy as king to ...

The construction of Persepolis began during the reign of Darius I (552-486 B.C) about 518 B.C, and continued under his son Xerxes I (486-465B.C) And his grandson Artaxerxes I (464-425 B.C).

Persepolis, Old Persian Parsa, or modern Takht-e Jamshid is an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran (Persia), located about 50 km northeast of Shiraz in the Fars region ...

ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Antiquities of Iron Age, Achaemenian (553-330BC), Greek (321-184BC) and Mauryan (14Bc) periods have been discovered in an excavation from the Greek city of Bhera.

Cyrus the Great, on the other hand, was a benevolent conqueror and a brilliant military strategist who founded the Achaemenian Empire. Cyrusm the Persian King (590-529 BCE), ...

The last period of Elamite texts is that of the reign of the Achaemenian kings of Persia (6th to 4th century BC), who used Elamite, along with Akkadian and Old Persian, in their inscriptions. The ...

Known in classical times as Ecbatana, Hamedan was one of the ancient world’s greatest cities. Pitifully little remains from antiquity, but significant parts of the city center are given over to ...