He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

The Roman Empires had fought a series of wars with pre-Islamic Persian dynasties from 92 BC to the 7th century AD - when the Muslim conquest of Persia caused the downfall of the Sasanian Empire.

It seems the Roman Empire entered the 7th century at the peak of its power. But Roman miscalculations, and their failure against their Persian opponents, brought the entire area into a downward ...

Eastern historians, such as the ninth-century Persian al-Tabari ... that Palmyra and its domains were submissive to the Roman Empire and its emperor. Zenobia knew how to take advantage of the ...

By 115 AD, he had captured the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon and had reached the Persian Gulf. The Roman Empire now stretched across Europe and the Middle East, from the borders of Scotland to ...

Research shows that A.D. 536 was not the worst year to be alive. Studies show that there is no textual evidence for the effects of the dust veil in the eastern Mediterranean, and there is an ...

Snake bracelets from Egypt's Roman Period dating to the first century. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART IN NEW YORK In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered Egypt during his military campaign across the ...

The trade and travel that was integral to the Roman Empire made it easy for the worship of gods to spread abroad and Isis came to be worshipped across the Empire. In the same way, the Persian god ...

Snake bracelets from Egypt's Roman Period dating to the first century ... Egypt during his military campaign across the Persian Empire. After his death in 323 BC, his empire was divided, and ...