This video maps the First Persian Empire — the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550–330 BC). We trace how Cyrus the Great united Persia ...

Experience the rise of the First Persian Empire in stunning visual form - this video uses Google Earth to map out how Cyrus ...

For many Jews, Cyrus represents a foreign ruler seen as a divine instrument in restoring Israel’s destiny — a story of ...

In a pivotal biblical story — retold each Rosh Hashana, marking the Jewish new year — God orders Abraham to sacrifice Isaac.

The rest of Iran remains mired in poverty. Public expressions of criticism or calls for economic relief are met with violent IRGC suppression of such heretical talk. It gets worse. Iran has long been ...

An ancient clay tablet from Babylon suggests Cyrus’ occupation of Babylon was peaceful. It confirms the return of exiles, but not specifically Jewish ones. Known today as the “Cyrus cylinder”, it is ...

Carefully tucking his Farvahar pendant under his shirt, Aram Mehdi reminds himself of the core Zoroastrian principles it represents: good words, good thoughts and good deeds.

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Perhaps Rabbi Mukhayriq’s devotion to a Messianic future of peace and brotherhood can inspire Islamic and Jewish religious leaders today—together—to heal past wounds, and to make Jerusalem and the ...

Kashf al-Asrār should therefore be read not simply as a polemic against the Pahlavi regime, but as part of a larger clerical ...

Mike Duncan knows how empires fall. He’s covered history’s most defining collapses, upheavals, and regime changes through the Revolutions and History of Rome podcasts — the latter being a 179 episode, ...

At the center of every empire is an ideology, a belief system that propels the system forward and justifies expansion — even if the cost of that expansion directly defies the ideology’s stated mission ...