ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIRE ESSAY HEILBRUNN TIMELINE OF ART THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ESSAYS WORKS OF ART CHRONOLOGY SEARCH LARGEST THE ANCIENT WORLD ANATOLIA EGYPT WESTERN ASIA NORTHERN INDIA CENTRAL FORMATION KING ASTYAGES IRAN EASTERN ANATOLIA SOUTHERN CYRUS II KING OF PERSIA UPSET THE BALANCE POWER THE LYDIANS WESTERN KING CROESUS ADVANTAGE THE FALL MEDIA PUSH EAST PERSIAN LYDIAN ARMY WINTER THE PERSIANS ADVANCED CAPITAL FELL ALLIED BABYLONIANS EGYPTIANS CYRUS HAD TO MAJOR POWERS THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN THE SITE THE TIGRIS BABYLON PRESENTED HIMSELF TRADITIONAL MESOPOTAMIAN TEMPLES POLITICAL THE ONE WESTERN POWER UNCONQUERED LIGHTNING LEFT CAMBYSES ROUT THE EGYPTIAN EASTERN NILE DELTA ANCIENT MEMPHIS CRISIS COURT FORCED RETURN DIED EN ROUTE DARIUS INSCRIPTIONS CERTAIN THE EMPIRE ROADS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM GOVERNORS NORTHWESTERN INDIA ACHAEMENID REALM INITIATED MAJOR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION OF ROYAL BUILDINGS SUSA THE CREATION DYNASTIC DECORATED STONE RELIEFS SHOW PARTS PROCESSING TOWARD ENTHRONED IMPRESSION EMPIRE THE AEGEAN EASTERN GREEK REVOLTED CRUSH THE REBELLION ATTACK MAINLAND GREECE MARATHON XERXES ATTEMPTED FORCE THE MAINLAND GREEKS SPARTA ATHENS REFUSED GIVE WAY GREECE THE SPARTANS THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE THE GREEKS VICTORY THE PERSIAN NAVY THE STRAITS SALAMIS POSSIBLE POINT REVOLT BROKE OUT IN STRATEGICALLY QUICKLY CRUSHED LEFT BEHIND THE BATTLE PLATAEA EVIDENCE PERSIAN HISTORY DEPENDENT CONTEMPORARY SOURCES CLASSICAL WHOSE FOCUS RELATIONS BETWEEN THE GREEK TALES OF MORAL DECADENCE LEARN ASSASSINATED NAME ARTAXERXES REVOLTS GARRISONS THE LEVANT INTACT DARIUS II CLAIMED REIGN ARTAXERXES II LITTLE WRITING THE EARLY SECOND CENTURY PLUTARCH RULER COURAGEOUS ARTAXERXES III THE KING CROWNED ARTAXERXES IV MURDERED DARIUS III SECOND COUSIN ARMIES ALEXANDER III OF MACEDON ALEXANDER FACT FIGHT INCH TAKING THE EXTRAORDINARY SOLIDARITY CERTAINLY STATE OF DECAY DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN CITATION READING HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN WINONA LAKE EISENBRAUNS ANCIENT PERSIA 550 BC RELATED PRIMARY PERIOD LYDIA PHRYGIA RISE MACEDONIA CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT SARDIS HELLENISTIC TRADITION ART AND CRAFT ARCHAIC ARTISTS CLASSICAL CYPRUS PTOLEMAIC PERIOD GEOMETRIC CYPRUS GREEK ART ARCHAIC PERIOD JEWELRY ROMAN CYPRUS THE MIDDLE KASSITE CONTINUITY REVIVALISM PARTHIAN EMPIRE GORDION KING MIDAS EIGHTH CENTURY HERO TEXTILES ISLAMIC RULERS THE ANCIENT WORLD NUBIA THE CAUCASUS ANCIENT GREECE NORTH ASIA SOUTH EGYPTIAN NEAR EASTERN NORTH LITERATURE CLOSE CAPTIONS CLOSE FLUTED BOWL VESSEL TERMINATING FANTASTIC CREATURE SERVANTS BEARING FOOD AND DRINK MAKERS KEYWORDS RIGHTS PRINT SHARE