Recent archaeological and numismatic evidence from Southwest Iran and adjacent areas has illuminated some of the complex cultural changes underway in this region during the Parthian period (c. 210 B.

The Parthians are a nomadic people who conquered and settled in the area near the Caspian Sea in the 4th century BC as part of the Dahae confederation. Since that time the Parthians, under their ...

Between 42 and 33 B.C.E., Mark Antony launched one of Rome’s most ambitious military campaigns: the invasion of Parthia.

The Parthians occupied the territory of present-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and part of Turkmenistan.

The pious Parthians (c. 19–226 CE) Gondophares, the king who brought St Thomas to his court as a master carpenter, is the first known Indo-Parthian king.

This article considers the conception and commemoration of foreigners, especially Parthians, as diagrammed in the triumphal imagery of Augustan Rome. The interaction of Trojan and Parthian iconography ...

Parthians The Shaka rule in north-western part of India was followed by the Parthians. It is said that Parthians had their roots in Iran and from there they migrated to India.

Would we like Trajan if we met him? (As long as we weren’t Dacians or Parthians, or any of the peoples against whom he led his campaigns.) “I think so. He was a man, according to sources, who ...