In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

We hear, for instance, of the Per sian war; of Herat, Candahar, Bushire, and DOST MOHAMMED--and we get a vague im pression of places heard of in school-days as somewhere in Afghanistan or Persia ...