Among the findings were stone-cutting tools, extraction evidence, and significant quantities of limestone and iron ore, which may have been used in crafting metal joints for Achaemenid stone ...

This was probably inspired by the tombs of the ancient Achaemenid kings (500 BC), defying Zoroastrian sky burial and Islamic earth burial practices. The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was the only exception ...

Written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian, the text provides insight into the culture, beliefs, and leadership of the Achaemenid Empire, which ruled much of the ancient world more than 2,500 ...

The inscription of Darius I, known as the "First Command of Darius the Great," is the largest inscription at Persepolis, the ancient ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire. Experts and ...

In 480 BC, after the victory of Xerxes I at the Battle of Thermopylae, all of Boeotia fell to the Achaemenid Army. The two cities that had resisted Xerxes, Thespiae and Plataea, were captured and ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi returned to Tehran from the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday with over 3,500 historical clay tablets belonging to the ancient Persian ...