The Persians decided on important matters by debating major issues twice, once while sober and again while drunk.

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Whether motivated by politics or drunken revelry, the destruction of Persepolis haunted its conqueror until the end of his ...

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

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

New findings at Oluz Höyük reveal rare Phoenician presence in central Anatolia through unique infant burials and Carthaginian ...

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Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...

Rhodes' Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is home to the historic Jewish quarter.

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Zoo announced the name of its new female Masai giraffe on Tuesday. “Kasi,” which means “speed” in ...