Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

Ancient Persian architecture, as if narrating a story, reveals centuries of conquests, spiritual journeys, and majestic empires that have shaped its landscape. These stories weave together over 2,500 ...

The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid, or Persian, Empire that historians say ...

Walking through history in an ancient Persian city ... ,” Javaherbin re-creates a walk through Isfahan with her father, punctuated by stops at many of the city’s notable buildings, ...

An Iranian man plays with a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday ...