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

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The Paris-based International Council of Museums had issued an emphatic warning after the first bomb strikes: There was a ...

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Isfahan, one of Iran’s most historic cities, is home to one of the three nuclear facilities targeted by the United States ...

As tensions rise in the Middle East following Israel's attack on Iran, and the conflict that has followed, travel in the ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

In the early 1950s, Iran had a liberal prime minister who promised to stop shipping the country's resource riches offshore, ...

It's never a good sign when you find yourself missing Gerard Butler. Butler, barring a good showing in Coriolanus, has been peddling the same Liam-Neeson-after-a-lobotomy schtick for years now, in ...

More than 300 million people in Iran and beyond celebrate the ancient holiday. It’s tied to the spring equinox and has roots in the Persian Empire. Here’s what to know. By Aimee Ortiz Nowruz ...