TEHRAN – A new mural at Vanak Square in Tehran was unveiled on Tuesday, depicting the legendary Iranian character “Arash the Archer” (Arash-e Kamangir in Persian) ready to shoot his arrow, with ...

Archaeologists believe that the coins—based on their location underneath a Helensitic house—were meant to pay off mercenaries. Fighting between the Persian and Athenian armies in the ancient Greek ...

Eduard Alofs, Studies on Mounted Warfare in Asia II: The Iranian Tradition — The Armoured Horse Archer in the Middle East, c. CE 550–1350, War in History, Vol. 22, No. 1 (January 2015), pp. 4-27 ...

Herodotus reports that just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could blank out the sun with their arrows.