The Persian Empire, founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great, became one of history’s most powerful and influential empires. At its height, it spanned three continents,covering parts of ...

Cyrus the Great built the first true world empire, uniting diverse territories under the Achaemenid rule, and consolidating a vast number of sub-territories while devising and implementing systems ...

The Achaemenid Empire is responsible for the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 539 BC, when Babylon was conquered by the Persians. When Cyrus declares a surprise war, all of Persia’s military ...

Next Friday marks the anniversary of the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great’s capture of the city of Babylon in 539 B.C. It was a momentous event, not only for the Persians who became de facto world ...

Profile of a conqueror Cyrus the Great, whose Persian Empire stretched from Turkey to India in the sixth century B.C., is pictured in a headdress in this 19th-century A.D. engraving.

Legacy of benevolence. Cyrus the Great died around 529 B.C., while campaigning against defiant nomadic tribes around the Caspian Sea. One measure of his greatness was the esteem in which he was ...

Vesta Sarkosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart (eds.), Birth of the Persian Empire (I.B.Tauris, 2005), especially the chapter ‘Cyrus the Great and the kingdom of Anshan’ by D.T. Potts ...