Darius I, Xerxes’ father, ... In 494 B.C., Persian ruler Darius the Great crushed the Ionian-Greek rebels at the Battle of Lade and then destroyed the Ionian city of Miletus.

According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and ...

King Darius of Persia demands Greek Submission. In September of the year 490, the Persian forces landed at the sandy harbour of Marathon with an invasion force of 600 ships, 20,000 or more foot ...

In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and almost won. The Greeks successfully used their home terrain ...

Ancient Iran was home to numerous exceptionally powerful kings throughout history. This was particularly so in the era of the ...

The conflicts that followed brought the Persian and Greek worlds closer together and set the stage for a drastic reshaping of ...

In retaliation, Darius sent an army to punish those Greek cities. Darius's forces burned the city of Eretria but were defeated in 490 B.C. at the Battle of Marathon by a force of Athenian hoplites ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian ...

Unfounded: Ancient Darius inscription shard isn’t authentic – Antiquities Authority Officials backtrack on claim of find linked to Purim king’s father, say fragment was created by an expert ...