Persepolis, the ceremonial city of the Persian Empire, embodied Achaemenid power, divine order, and the vision of a united ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

TEHRAN - Due to “its great success”, the exhibition “Narrators of Ancient Iran: A Selection of Objects from the National ...

Legal dispute over Persepolis tablets threatens international lending of cultural assets. [ briefs ] In 1930, archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld came across 30,000 clay tablets on a dig in the ancient city ...

Three scholars will give fresh perspectives on ancient Persia in a symposium next month at the University of Colorado Boulder. “King and Kingship in Ancient Persia” is the theme of the Seventh Annual ...

Researchers believe they have found the site where Alexander the Great's troops fought the Battle of the Granicus.

On Friday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. the University of Maine School of Performing Arts (SPA) presented a screening of the documentary “Six Centuries, Six Years.” The film portrays the journey of Iranian ...

Some of the most enduring ancient myths in the Persian world were centred around gardens of almost unimaginable beauty and opulence. The biblical Garden of Eden and the Epic of Gilgamesh’s Garden of ...

Thousands of Iranians gathered at dusk against a snowy mountain backdrop to light giant bonfires in an ancient mid-winter festival dating back to Iran's pre-Islamic past that is drawing new interest ...

TEHRAN, Iran – Iranians are defying religious hard-liners to celebrate the "Festival of Fire," a nearly 4,000-year-old Persian tradition. In Tehran, people lit bonfires in public places, set off ...