ASMR Sleep Story - Ancient Empires of Persia

This soft spoken ASMR video is an exploration of the history of Persia and its ancient empires, from the emergence of civilization in what would become Iran, to the arrival of Iranian peoples, the kingdoms and empires they created (the Achaemenids, the Parthians, the Sassanians), until the Muslim Conquest of the 7th century.
I also tell you about Persian culture, language and architecture, the Greco-Persian wars and the rivalry with Rome and Byzantium, and many other aspects of Ancient Persia.

related videos:
- History of the Roman Empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gfF0TRrMOI
- History of Alexander the Great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_usXKs6ljA
- Archaeology Stories, including the Ark of the Covenant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoKWxRWV4vs

Credits: script and narration by the French Whisperer, visuals by the French Whisperer, under Wikipedia Commons, or under web licence from Panthermedia. Music and sound effects from the YouTube Audio Library for Creators.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Ancient Persia
4:28 Mesopotamia and Iranian Plateau
8:14 Civilization of Elam
10:10 Persia or Iran?
14:14 Indo-European origins or Iranian Peoples
17:38 Change in the country's name
19:20 Neo-Assyrian Empire
23:58 The Achaemenid Dynasty
26:25 Cyrus II the Great, Cambyses II and Darius I
31:55 Administrating an empire
34:57 Old Persian language and cuneiform script
38:24 Persepolis
42:06 Zoroastrianism
45:48 Greco-Persian Wars
48:27 Xerxes' Expedition and Thermopylae
52:36 Stagnation until Alexander the Great
56:02 Rise of the Kingdom of Parthia
58:12 The Parthian Empire
1:01:56 The Sasanian Empire
1:05:20 Wars with Rome and Byzantium
1:07:29 The twilight of Ancient Persia