The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r.522–486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the ...

Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre proposes a fresh approach to understanding the Achaemenid Empire based on her study of the regional capital, Sardis. This study uses archaeological, artistic and textual ...

Media lay in the central Zagros Mountains; Periss (the name is the Greek form of Fars) lay in the southwest. The history of the Medes and of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty (named for an ancestor, ...

For the kings of the Achaemenid Empire, who ruled much of the ancient Near East from 550 to 330 B.C., there was little—apart from hunting lions and conquering the world—that rivaled a rhyton ...

Most of the Saltmen mummies recovered from the site date back to the Achaemenid Dynasty (550-330 BCE), which was the largest empire of its kind in the ancient world. At its peak, the Achaemenid ...