Persia

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.