The rich capitals of the Achaemenid Empire lay exposed to a foreign invader ... the Achaemenid capitals of Persepolis and Pasargadae were now within easy striking distance. With Darius III ...

The Achaemenid empire (ca. 550-330 B.C.) was the first world empire ... She is currently studying the seal impressions on the Aramaic tablets of the Persepolis Fortification Archive (dating ca.500 BCE ...

For the kings of the Achaemenid Empire, who ruled much of the ancient ... a role known from records such as the Persepolis Administrative Archives to have been one of the highest trust.

Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...

Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, and dates back to 515 BC. It was declared by Unesco to be a World Heritage Site in 1979. Alamy Showing Darius the Great of the Achaemenid ...

Some of the oldest countries are not just lands but living records of human history as their stories go back thousands of ...