A 2,400-year-old Egyptian coffin with strange decorations offers insights into a tumultuous period of Egyptian history, under the rule of the Persian Empire ... out these photos of the coffin ...

The remains of Persepolis, capital of the Persian Empire, sit at the foot of Kuh ... Courtesy Simon Norfolk/NB Pictures/Contacto Cyrus began construction of his own capital city in Persia ...

Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire — the largest in the world at that time. Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern ...

Various descendants of the Persian empire — including modern day Iran, parts of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Turkey, among other countries — have celebrated Nowruz for thousands of years.