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PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME hits theaters on May 28, 2010.

The Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550–330 BCE), also known as the Persian Empire, was the successor state of the Median Empire, ruling over significant portions of what would become Greater Iran. Please enjoy watching Part 4 of Ancient Persia Picture Collection.

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Part 3 of Ancient Persia Pictures

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Several more pictures of Ancient Persia

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The empires that rule Persia:

* Early Civilization in Persia
* The Achaemenid Empire (550-330 B.C.)
* The Seleucid Period (320-141 BC)
* The Parthian Empire (250 BC- AD 225)
* The Sassanian Dynasty (A.D. 224-642)

A few pictures from ancient to mondern Persia (aka Iran) (Part I) >>

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The Achaemenid Empire or Persian Empire (550–330 BCE) was the successor state of the Median Empire, ruling over significant portions of what would become Greater Iran. The Persian and the Median Empire taken together are also known as the Medo-Persian Empire, succeeding the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was succeeded in turn by the Seleucid Empire.

Cyrus the great overthrew the Median empire, establishing the largest empire in the world up to that date . At its height this Persian Empire would stretch from India to Libya and hold an est. 70,000,000 people .

When Nahid Persson Sarvestani, an Iranian exile, set out to make a documentary about Farah, the wife of the shah of Iran, she expected to encounter her opposite.

A brief history of the first human civilizations in Iran

Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and the shah was forced into exile.

" Conservative clerical forces established a theocratic system of government with ultimate political authority vested in a learned religious scholar referred to commonly as the Supreme Leader who, according to the constitution, is accountable only to the Assembly of Experts.