Unlike the Parthians, who originated from a nomadic ... won a major victory in 260 CE when he captured Roman emperor Valerian ...

AMMAN — The military tactics of the ancient world included mounted archers and Parthian and Armenian ones used the rhombus formation in a battle. Historians and Classicists claim that the information ...

The Parthians and the Romans were enemies engaged in ruthless and almost perpetual warfare, a life and death struggle which left few opportunities for peaceful contacts. It is not surprising therefore ...

Then, in 40 B.C., Parthians from the east invaded Judea, wresting it from the Romans and appointing the last Hasmonean ruler (Mattathias Antigonus). At the time of the Parthian invasion ...

He conquered Dacia (now part of Romania), which provided land for Roman settlers and rich pickings from gold and salt mines. He then attacked the Parthians, Rome’s old enemy in the East ...

These wars have existed for the longest duration in human history. The recent conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, as well as Israel and Hamas, have drawn global attention to the suffering of many ...

The Roman forts that are present in the Euphrates side of Jebel Bishri have apparently been planned and organised in a way that they functioned together as a defensive system against the Parthians and ...

Antipater’s son Herod appealed to Rome for aid, and was appointed king of Judaea in 40 B.C. At that time Jerusalem was occupied by Parthian troops, fighting on behalf of the anti-Roman Jews.

AMMAN - Heavily armoured cavalry was called cataphracts and they originated in Persia during ancient times. The cataphracts took part in many campaigns on the ancient war theatres in Eurasia and ...

The Arsacid or Parthian dynasty ruled from around 250 BCE to 226 CE. It is the least known of the major Iranian dynasties despite being a formidable enemy of the Romans. The Silk Roads across Central ...

The pendulum swung halfway back as the Greek-Persian rivalry became a Roman-Parthian one, and Iraq a contested borderland ...