Monarchs of Persia

Cyrus took Media, Lydia, and Babylon 539, the largest empire yet. The Cyrus Cylinder, repatriation of exiles, Jews returned to reb...

Darius the Great consolidated the Achaemenid realm, the Behistun inscription, trilingual cliff autobiography, our Rosetta for cune...

Darius son, Xerxes bridged the Hellespont, whipped the sea in legend, and invaded Greece 480 with an army Herodotus numbered in mi...

Abbas I took the throne in a period of crisis and rebuilt the Safavid state. He created a standing army loyal to himself, includin...