Tsakonika, the language of ancient Sparta, still survives today, despite the ravages of time and the many reversals of ...

The King's tie had a pattern based on the Greek flag - after a week-long row between the UK PM and the Greek PM over the Parthenon Sculptures. The dispute is over whether the sculptures ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

Greek basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo is to become the first black athlete to bear the flag for Greece at the Olympics. The two-time NBA MVP will carry the flag alongside race walker ...

All chapters abide by The Standards, a governing document which sets an expectation that organizations strive to fulfill their missions and demonstrate a commitment to the growth and development of ...

The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece a few times but the Greeks managed to fight them off. In the end, the Greeks led by Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Empire in the 330sBC.

However, sometimes they joined together to fight against a bigger enemy, like the Persian Empire. Only a very powerful ruler could control all Greece. One man did in the 300s BC. He was Alexander ...

Saint Anastasius was a Persian by race, the son of a Magus, and a soldier in the Persian army in the days of Chosroes II, King of Persia, and Heraclius, Emperor of New Rome. The Saint's Persian name ...

Saint Anastasius was a Persian by race, the son of a Magus, and a soldier in the Persian army in the days of Chosroes II, King of Persia, and Heraclius, Emperor of New Rome. The Saint's Persian name ...

By the 900s, drawing from a growing body of Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit works translated into Arabic, Islamic medicine quickly became the most sophisticated in the world. Christians, Jews ...

No Greek had any doubt that the King of Persia was enormously wealthy. Twelve hundred camels brought him his money, says Demosthenes (xiv.27), in comparing his resources with what fourth–century ...

Little is known about this first structure except that it was still under construction in 480 B.C. when Persian forces sacked ... Devastated by the invasion of Greece, approximately 100 Greek ...