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 ...

The Achaemenid Empire rose from a small Persian kingdom to the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. Through ...

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 ...

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

The University of Chicago is fighting an attempt to seize thousands of ancient, clay tablets from their Oriental Institute. The tablets were brought to Chicago for study in 1937. American survivors 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 ...

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 ...

The Shahnameh is the great epic of ancient Persia, opening with the creation of the universe and closing with the Arab Muslim conquest of the worn-out empire in the 7th century. In its pages, the 11th ...

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 ...

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 ...