Nearchus, the Navigator, bridged East and West with a daring voyage that reshaped ancient maritime strategy and trade routes.

Ahead of a May tour of the Middle East, US President Donald Trump revived a long-running dispute over the name of the body of ...

The friction follows reports that U.S. President Donald Trump was considering renaming the Persian Gulf into the " Arabian ...

Ancient Persia is now modern-day Iran ... been used throughout history, in maps, documents and diplomacy, from the time of the ancient Persians, whose empire dominated the region, to the Greeks ...

The oldest and most frequently recurring name is the Persian ... modern-day Saudi Arabia. The experts wrote: “It is obvious that the promotional use by the Arabs of the three aforementioned maps ...

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Parliament, took a pragmatic stance by releasing historical maps ... "Persian Gulf is not a matter of debate — it’s a historical fact. For over 2,500 years, ...

The country descended from the Persian Empire and was called Persia by Western ... For users in the United States, Google Maps currently lists the name as "Persian Gulf (Arabian Gulf)," while ...

The government of Iran — formerly Persia — threatened to sue Google in 2012 over the company’s decision not to label the body of water at all on its maps. On Google Maps in the U.S., the ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire ... Persian reprisal. The Spartans refused him, but the Athenians promised to send twenty triremes, and the Eretrians ...

Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.