Achaemenid

Athens, during the Classical period (508-322 BCE), stood at the forefront of ancient Greece's city-states, heralding a g...

Coastal plain northeast of Athens where the Athenians defeated the first Persian invasion in 490 BCE, ten years before T...

The Achaemenid Persian Empire, one of the largest empires in ancient history, stretching from India to Greece at its hei...

The elite Persian guard known as the Immortals wore scale armor and carried wicker shields. They were called Immortals b...

The Persian army was famous for its archers. Herodotus claimed their arrows would "blot out the sun" at Thermopylae, to...

The Persian Composite Bow was one of the most sophisticated and powerful weapons of the ancient world. It was a recurve...

Dynastic civilization along the Nile from early unification through the Ptolemaic period.

City-state Hellenic civilization from the Archaic period through the Roman conquest.

Roman polity from the founding of the Republic through the fall of the Western Empire.