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

For millennia, historians, philosophers and statesmen have pondered about war, its nature and the nature of leaders who take ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

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Today, readers of the Bible are reading their newspapers and seeing history repeat itself. Centuries after Haman’s genocidal ...

Queen Esther (Dupont), who saves her people from extermination through her marriage to the powerful King Xerxes of Persia (Goss). Originally named Hadassah, the orphaned girl adopts the name ...

In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of ...

The jar was made in Egypt and bears a brief inscription in Egyptian, Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite that includes the name of the fifth-century B.C. Persian king Xerxes I. How did this alabaster ...

A screenshot of the scenario summary shows it places you in the sandals of Alexander the Great, squaring off against rulers like Nefertiti of Egypt and the Persian King Xerxes as you scramble to ...

Michelle Cottle, David French and Tressie McMillan Cottom dissect Trump’s reach for power.

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When Ester becomes King Xerxes’ queen, her Cousin Mordecai and that despicable Haman engage in a dangerous game of intrigue for control of the young Persian King Xerxes.