The inscriptions in Old Persian cuneiform of the Achaemenian emperors -- Les inscriptions cunéiformes en Ancien Persan des empereurs achéménides -- Farmānhā-yi shāhanshāhān-i Hakhāmanishī kih bi-zabān ...

It’s a $125-million hotel built in the style of Persepolis, all graceful columns, statues of winged bulls with human faces and bas reliefs showing envoys bearing gifts for ancient Achaemenian ...

The building operations of this magnificent ensemble went on for more than a century and it eventually began falling into ruin after the downfall of the Achaemenian dynasty.

Cyrus the Great, on the other hand, was a benevolent conqueror and a brilliant military strategist who founded the Achaemenian Empire.

It is located at Kangavar in Kermanshah Province, west of Iran, and is thought to be built by Achaemenian Emperor Ardeshir II (Artaxerxes II), 404 BC to 359 BC. Actually, the Anahita Temple is the ...

Ecbatana was the capital of Media and subsequently a summer residence of the Achaemenian kings who ruled Persia from 553 to 330 BC. Hamedan has had many names: it was possibly the Bit Daiukki of the ...

TEHRAN – A team of Iranian archaeologists has unearthed some ancient tombs, relics, and architectural vestiges in a survey they recently conducted in the southern Fars province.

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.