Journey through time and explore the most catastrophic decisions that shaped history around 1000 years ago. From epic ...

leading Bagoas to make Artaxerxes’ son Arses king before he, too, was removed. Bagoas then turned to a popular but minor figure, who took the throne as Darius III around 336 BCE. If Bagoas ...

Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.

A rare 2,500-year-old inscription, bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great, was found in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said. The inscription, which was ...