Today, we can’t get enough of our costume dramas replete with steamy characters, set against backdrops of ancient intrigues. Skip to content. skip to ... Xerxes follows pretty much the same formula.

Persepolis was burnt by Alexander the Great in 330 BC apparently as revenge to the Persians because it seems the Persian King Xerxes had burnt the Greek City of Athens around 150 years earlier. The ...

Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery brought King Xerxes' fury down upon them in 480 B.C.

Most of our knowledge about Persian history stems from contemporary Greek sources and later classical writers. These sources predominantly focus on Persian-Greek relations, court intrigues, and moral ...

The ancient Persian capital of Persepolis, in a vast and arid plain 40 miles from Shiraz in southern Iran, is the greatest ancient site between the Holy Land and India.

Directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Zack Snyder, the film portrays the ancient battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Greek Spartans barred the way to the grand army of Persian King Xerxes I.