Persia, Rise and Legacy: The Unity of the Ancient World

The story of Persia is not born in isolation. It emerges-like a shard of pottery found layered deep beneath more familiar ruins-from a broader, older, and more entangled world. Long before the name "Persia" echoed in the courts of Babylon, the valleys of the Zagros Mountains and the plains of Khuzistan pulsed with the rhythms of older civilizations: Elamites, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Medes. To truly understand the rise of Persia is to first understand the world that surrounded it-and in ...