Persian Empire

in a sentence

In ancient Persia, the gold would have been real.†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

Firdausi's Shah Nameh ("Epic of Kings") is a rehearsal in simple and stately narrative verse of the story of ancient Persia down to the Mohammedan conquest.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

He took part calmly in a number of political assassinations; and he turned his diabolical inventive powers against the Emir of Afghanistan, who was at war with the Persian empire.†  (source) Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera, 1911