In Persia, engineers constructed pontoon bridges in 480 BCE across the Hellespont to facilitate Xerxes I’s military campaign into Greece. These structures relied on the principle of buoyancy ...

Xerxes the Great was the fourth King of Kings who ruled the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Known in the modern day for fighting the Greeks, as well as for for his battle-hardened feats and massive ...

ORONO – Meet Xerxes, a dog in possession of a Greek name with roots stretching further back to Persian. It means hero among rulers. Xerxes is a very good boy. He’s also the first community ...