The Roman Empires had fought a series of wars with pre-Islamic Persian dynasties from 92 BC to the 7th century AD - when the Muslim conquest of Persia caused the downfall of the Sasanian Empire.

One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

but Diocletian recognized that the Roman Empire was simply too big to rule effectively as one person. So, he decided to split his rule among a fellow augusti Maximian, who ruled in the West while ...