It seems as if the people who built Persepolis, and this they did even before the ancient Romans created their world empire, appeared out of nowhere. Presumably it was a tribe of herdsmen who settled in the south-west of present-day Iran in the 8th century B.C. This region was known as Parsa, or Persis as the Greeks called it. When, in 550 B.C., the Achaemenid Kyros ascended the throne, it took only a few years for the Persian Empire to be feared...

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.

Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her...

An anthropological scientific study of ancient Zoroastrian Judaism, Christianity, and Islam of Semitic and nomadic Iran-with general East Asian Hindu and Buddhist philosophical, social, and religious reference to the newer Catholic order of chivalry of the Knights Templar, including genealogical cultural Mystery Cryptology of The Holy Grail -transcripted angelic or alien sightings and encounters, which become regular family traditions as heritage...

Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind that would serve him well when he faced formidable obstacles during his military campaigns. Shortly after taking command of the army, he launched an invasion of the Persian empire, and continued his conquests as far south as the deserts of Egypt and as far east as the mountains of present-day...

Comics veteran Andy Diggle (The Losers, Green Arrow: Year One) and artist Rubine (Voltron: Legendary Defender) continue their adaptation of the beloved science fiction franchise! Set in the nearly 30 year gap between the 6th and 7th novels, The Expanse: Babylon's Ashes and The Expanse: Persepolis Rising, the final season of the television series was not the end, and neither an unstable interstellar cold war nor emerging alien technology will compare...

Meet Georg Grotefend, a German high school teacher who made an incomparable contribution to the study of ancient writing and civilization. As you investigate the methods he used to decipher Old Persian cuneiform in the Achaemenid texts of Persepolis, delve into a bit of history on this culture's language and the foundation that was already established for the decipherment.