Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr
Justinian is, without a doubt, one of the most impactful historical figures of the past 2,000 years.
The Scythians transformed the Eurasian steppe. They built giant burial mounds for their powerful kin
For millennia, the Eurasian steppe has been the highway connecting the distant ends of Europe and As
The Persian Wars came to an end in the spring of 479 BC, when the land forces of the allied Greeks m
In excavating massive Iron Age burial mounds in southern Siberia, Dr. Gino Caspari is doing some of
The Persian invasion of Greece aimed to do one thing above all else: punish Athens for its transgres
In 480 BC, the Persian Great King Xerxes descended on mainland Greece with one of the largest armies
The wars between the Persians and the Greeks have become a cornerstone of the idea of "Western Civil
When we think about the wars between the Persians and the Greeks, our perspective is quite explicitl
While Cyrus the Great built the Persian Empire from the ground up, his successors expanded it until
The kingdoms of Iron Age Anatolia survive only as whispers in the archaeological and historical reco
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The Persians were unlikely successors to the Assyrians and Babylonians, a fringe people of no partic
Egypt's New Kingdom, the peak of its monumental building and international power, ended in the after
Despite controlling a huge swathe of the Near East for the better part of a century, the Neo-Babylon
The Persian Empire followed in the footsteps of the Assyrians and Babylonians, but it was a much dif
It's summertime, and I hope you're reading some great books. Dr. Keith Pluymers joins me once again
Israel and Judah flourished for centuries as kingdoms on the margins of the Near East's great empire
The roots of ancient Judaism, and the Abrahamic religions, are to be found in the arid hills and fer
