Thousands of clay tablets found in Persepolis, in modern-day Iran, are finally being translated — and they show his ...

Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched from ... The Persian Empire's capital, Persepolis, which Alexander's forces captured and razed, "would rival Rome and Athens as the greatest ...

Narratives say that Persepolis was burnt by Alexander the Great in 330 BC apparently as revenge against the Persians, because it seems the Persian King Xerxes had burnt the Greek City of Athens around ...