From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian ...

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, ...

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

In Western history, Persians are exotic and malevolent “Others.” The fantasy film 300 (2006) is an extreme example. For many modern Americans, Persians are the Bad Guys. The first great Persian empire ...

Machine generated contents note: 2.1. The Persians -- 2.1.1. Parsua and Parsumash -- 2.1.2. Kurash of Parsumash -- 2.2. The Indigenous Population of the Iranian Plateau: The Elamites -- 2.3. The ...

The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian ...

Introduction / John Curtis -- 1. Five unpublished Persepolis relief fragments in the Ashmolean Museum / Paul Collins -- 2. Where did the Persian kings live in Babylon? / John Curtis -- 3. The use of ...

Legal dispute over Persepolis tablets threatens international lending of cultural assets. [ briefs ] In 1930, archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld came across 30,000 clay tablets on a dig in the ancient city ...

Coco Chanel called luxury “a necessity that begins where necessity ends.” When form exceeds function, it expresses another kind of need, the claim to status. The British Museum’s “Luxury and Power: ...