November 12, 333 BC. The second triumph of M. Alexander over the Persians, after Granikos, in the Battle of Issus. This time, his opponent was their king himself, Darius III, who panicked and fled in ...

During the period of the Greco-Persian Wars, Plovdiv was part of the Persian Empire. From 516 BCE, it was incorporated into the empire of Darius the Great. Power fluctuated back and forth as Persia ...

Alexander the Great adopted this garment after his victory over Darius III in the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C., marking his dominance over the vast Persian Empire. The sarapis was a purple tunic ...

Battle of Issus (333 BC) Alexander the Great achieved a decisive victory over the Persian King Darius III, further expanding his empire and securing his hold over Asia Minor. It was the second great ...

Darius the great the fourth king of the Achaemenid Persian empire stretching from the Caucasus and West Asia to the Balkans in south eastern Europe and even to Egypt and North Africa before the ...

The first three years of the competition were strictly between Ghana and Nigeria, both in basketball and in the jollof ...

In 499–494 B.C.E., the Greek cities of Eretria and Athens stoked an uprising in Ionia against the Persian Empire, triggering the anger of Emperor Darius. The Greeks fought against the Achaemenid ...

By the 5th century BCE, the Persian king Darius 1 had built the Royal Road, a dramatic 2,400-km highway that linked Sardis in the west of the empire to Susa, the capital. He had snatched the throne, ...

Ancient Greek statues and artistic treasures housed in Paris museums depict the Greeks' influence on the entire European continent.