The Trilingual Inscriptions of Darius and Xerxes at Ganj Nameh
About 12 kilometers southwest of the ancient city of Ecbatana (modern Hamadan) in western Iran, and 2,000 meters above sea level on Mount Al...
About 12 kilometers southwest of the ancient city of Ecbatana (modern Hamadan) in western Iran, and 2,000 meters above sea level on Mount Al...
In the year 330 BC, Alexander the Great advanced through the Persian territory, conquering its cities and regions, culminating in the captur...
In Histories , written in the 5th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus tells the story of Atossa, the queen of Persia, who was struck b...
Off the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf, about 8 km from the mainland, lies Hormuz Island, a small, teardrop shaped mound of rock salt, gy...
Sometime between 579 and 323 BC during the Achaemenid Persian period, the Citadel of Bam (in Persian Arg-é Bam) was built in southeastern pr...
Head covering, veils and burqas are common sight among many Muslim communities around the world. There are a lot of different styles and ea...
Natural calamites like floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes have always been considered “acts of god”, yet for centuries our ancestors have r...
Million of years ago, the Persian Gulf was a much larger body of water than it is today, inundating large sections of the Arabian peninsula...
The fate of a beautiful, avant-garde mosque in the Iranian capital Tehran hangs in balance as the city decides what to do with the partially...
The Egyptians had pyramids, the Mesopotamians had ziggurats, which are massive brick structures with raised platforms with successively rece...