This category lists sites devoted to the ancient history of the Persian Empire.
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- Iran in the Bible Persia and its people according to the Bible, including images, audio, and links.
- Persia Extensive collection of short articles.
- Ancient Mesopotamia Visit sites within Babylon, Assyria, and Persia through the many images.
- Avesta - Zoroastrian Archives A significant collection of Zoroastrian texts.
- Persian Empire A detailed account of the empire that includes photographs, maps, chart, and links.
- List of Kings of Persia Listing of dynasties and the rulers.
- Ctesiphon one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia and the capital of Persia.
- Artaxerxes III Chronicle A tablet dealing with the sack of Sidon c.346 B.C.E.
- Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions from Persepolis in Electronic Form An article containing images as written by Matthew W. Stolper.
- PersianEmpire.info Articles on the Medians, Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, and the Sassanids. Features mp3 lectures, royal lines, and timeline.
- A Collection of Contracts from Mesopotamia Covering areas of sales and purchases, rentals, labor contracts, co-partnerships, loans and mortgages, bankruptcy, power of attorney, marriage, divorce, adoption, and inheritance.
- The Decree of Return for the Jews As written by Kurash (Cyrus) the Great.
- On The Customs of the Persians Paper by Herodotus.
- Persepolis and Ancient Iran Document on architecture, reliefs, and finds of the palaces at Persepolis, prehistoric mound of Tall-i-Bakun, Islamic city mound, and aerial survey flights with photographs.
- Queen Tomyris of the Massagetai and the Defeat of the Persians Written account by Herodotus.
- The Persians Reject Democracy/Darius' State An excerpt from Herodotus's The History.
- Accounts of Persian Despotism and Law Narrations found in Herodotus's The Histories, written c. 430 B.C. and The Book of Esther, written c. 300 B.C.
- Persia and the Greeks - The Defence of the West, C. 546- 478 B.C Andrew Robert Burn provides a fairly balanced view of the Achaemenids in their dealings with the Greeks, 1962 by subscription.
- Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 B.C A picture of women and their economic and political importance in the empire by Maria Brosius, 1998 by subscription.
- Persia Links to online articles.