The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an intended massacre. This is the background to the Festival of Purim, which the Jews still...
Ancient Iran was home to numerous exceptionally powerful kings throughout history. This was particularly so in the era of the Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire, which was the empire that was eventually defeated by Alexander the...
According to Biblical tradition, a young Jewish woman named Esther became Queen of Persia during the reign of Xerxes the Great and saved her people, the Jews, from a terrible massacre. But how did she become queen anyway, and how...
Some 2,500 years ago a naval battle took place in September (although the exact date remains unknown) in the straits between the Greek mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens. The battle of Salamis changed...
