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Historian David Soria dedicates a monumental biography, with special emphasis on military matters, to the first Caesar of ...
Nisa, one of the Parthian capitals (photo: Thomas Liptak/CC) At its height in the second century BC, the Parthian Empire stretched from the Persian Gulf, along Mesopotamia and held sway over Indus ...
Among his mistakes, however, was an attack on the Parthian Empire beginning in 115 or 116. He personally led his troops into Mesopotamia (what we now call Iraq) capturing the capital of Ctesiphon ...
The 2021 Rabana excavation team. A rain shrine linked to a water goddess has been found in an ancient mountain fortress that archaeologists believe could be the long-lost city of Natuonia, found ...
We see important battles, various cities of the Parthian empire, the capital cities that are crushed by the Roman might. We also see on a smaller freeze the depiction of the triumphal procession.
The stronghold, known as Rabana-Merquly, was once part of the Parthian Empire (also known as the Arsacid Empire), which reigned between 247 B.C. and A.D. 224. The Parthians were bitter enemies of ...
The coins, which date back to the Parthian, Sassanid, the early Islamic eras, will go on display after being fully restored and documented, according to Ali Mostofian, the provincial tourism chief.
The kingdom of Adiabene paid tribute to the Parthian Empire, which was a major political player in Iran that lasted about 1,000 years until 224 A.D.