In this section we are presenting sections of ancient Persian history for the you to examine. New selections will be added often.

Brief History of Iran : A brief history of Iran, starting from original natives of the Aryan Plateau to the Revolution of 1979

Darius The Great : The great statesman of ancient times

Mithras and Mithraism : The lost religion of Persia. A Persian, Zoroastrian and Vedic deity, he was the most widely venerated god in the Roman Empire at the time of Christ.

Iran-Iraq War : Use of Chemical Weapons by Iraq : The fact-sheet published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in 1984, in relation to use of deadly chemical weapons by Iraq during its invasion of Iran. This fact-sheet describes factual instances found by the UN Investigation and the history of the use of the weapons up until 1984. The war ended in 1988 in a stalemate, after direct U.S. military intervention and attack operations against Iran in support of Iraq, after Iraq had lost all the occupied territory and was loosing its own strategic territory to Iran. The war resulted in over a million Iranian Casualties.

Iran-Iraq War : Brief History (1980 - 1988) : A quick history of Iran-Iraq war, from invasion of Iran by Iraqis, to the resulting expelling of Iraqi forces and final cease-fire in 1988 brought about by UN resolution 598.