5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

While people in Ancient Athens had a remarkable work ethic, they placed equal value on leisure, seeing it as time for ...

Traces of color preserved in the stone are changing how historians understand what was lost when Alexander burned Persepolis.

A flash flood in southeastern Iran exposed evidence of a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization. This episode traces how looted artifacts led archaeologists to the Halil River valley, revealing ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

President Donald Trump said U.S. naval forces were on their way to Iran, telling reporters on Thursday that he hoped the ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump said the U.S. is moving an "armada" toward Iran “just in case” he wants to take action.

Their hospitality carries a message the regime cannot censor: Iranians long to reconnect with the world that was pushed away ...

The setting of “Fustuk” is the Pars Empire, which is modeled roughly on the Persian Empire of the 1400s and 1500s. The book’s ...

President Donald J. Trump announced that U.S. naval forces were heading toward Iran, while stating that he succeeded in stopping 837 hangings that were to take place […] ...

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Flynn said the fake X accounts were "humiliating" for the brutal regime in Tehran.