Ancient Greeks of Bactria ruled over Gujarat, India under Menander around 150 B.C. and established trade contracts with the ...

Caledonia, as it was known then, was a frustrating place to be a Roman commander. Rome tried three times to conquer it—and ...

Then, in 40 B.C., Parthians from the east invaded Judea, wresting it from the Romans and appointing the last Hasmonean ruler (Mattathias Antigonus). At the time of the Parthian invasion ...

The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran. The Parthians largely adopted the art, architecture, religious beliefs, and ...

Mesopotamia has sometimes been the domain of the enemy, as in the early Islamic period and during the recent Iran-Iraq war; sometimes this domain has been an area that, despite having a mostly Semitic ...

He then attacked the Parthians, Rome’s old enemy in the East, who lived in what is now part of Iran. By 115 AD, he had captured the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon and had reached the Persian Gulf.

Middle Persian, also known as Pahlavi, after the Parthians who ruled Persia after the collapse of Alexander's Empire, is known chiefly through its use in Persian's pre-Islamic Zoroastrian religious ...

As the Evening League at Boston Indoor Bowls Club approaches the end of the first round of matches next week, the Orchard ...

A substantial fortification wall protecting the southern and western side of the settlement appears to date to this period and makes excellent sense as the Parthians were protecting their empire ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The volume contains 12 studies presenting political, social, economic and religious aspects of history of Central Asia and Iran in period ...

These were exciting places of cultural exchange, and a melting pot that included Jews, Persians and Parthians. In this period, the oceans were not barriers to trade but the means of conducting it.

Acts 2:9-10 lists the native regions of the masses: "Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and ...