IRAN, a land with a civilization stretching back more than five thousand years, has always been one of the most significant ...

More than anything, its citizenry wants the opportunity to use their talents, skills and cultural confidence to make Iran ...

Before Persia ruled half the known world, Iran was shaped by forgotten civilizations. This episode traces the region’s path from the Elamites and early cultures to the rise of the Achaemenid Empire ...

Revealing remarkable religious diversity in the region, German archaeologists uncovered evidence of Christians and ...

Crossing the border into Uzbekistan, we arrived in the heart of the Central Asian Silk Road. Our first stop was Khiva, a ...

OP-ED. In an op-ed for Le Monde, the exiled actress, an icon of Iranian women's fight for freedom, responds for the first ...

Iran is already a thoroughly integrated and educated nation-state under the repressive rule of the ayatollahs.

An increasing number of jewelry designers have been incorporating ancient artifacts into contemporary designs, producing the kind of distinctive creations that people crave today. While the practice ...

A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid. Ziggurats were common in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq) from around 4,000 ...

In Iran, millions of protesters have taken to the streets to protest the repressive religious regime that has ruled the country for more than four decades. The response of the government, led by ...

Two Iranian-backed militias in the Mideast are signaling their willingness to launch new attacks, likely trying to back Iran, ...

Spartan general Pausanias lived a life which encapsulated the Ancient Greek city state, killed by his own people for ...