He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Mughal is the Persian-Arabic term for Mongol ... 1591 The Sindh region was brought under the control of the Mughal empire. 1595 Kandahar, modern day Afghanistan, was brought under the control ...

Alexander the Great established himself as Emperor of Asia and urged his generals to marry Persian women in the Susa weddings.

Archaeologists in Turkey have just identified the site of Alexander the Great's first victory over the Persian Empire. This ...

Rome remained the capital of the Western Roman Empire, while Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - was the capital ... with the Muslim conquest of Persia, in the 7th century.