The sight of vast graves opening and the undead clawing out should unnerve us all. But we haven’t even noticed. As more blood flows than any horror film offers, it’s brought the hope of eternal life ...

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Study Group (ASG) on Friday night opened its new season celebrating history and culture with a photographic presentation of the Persian Empire as it existed. Marking the ...

The foundations of Iran tie into its long and rich religious history and development, starting from ancient times and the ...

Puzzling motivations for denial of national heritage, belated release of video. [ comment ] In late July 2006, I traveled to Tehran to see my family and relatives, and to work with several Iranian ...

The Greek victory over the Persian Empire (499–449 BC) remains one of history's greatest "David vs. Goliath" scenarios.

Although it has remained for 2,500 years a collection of toppled columns, ornate but broken sculptures of majestic bulls, and eroded carvings of subjects bearing tributes, Persepolis in its ruins is a ...

Ehsan Yarshater, an eminent Iranian historian who founded and edited the Encyclopedia Iranica, a magnum opus of Iranian history and culture that helped transform the modern understanding of Persian ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE HISTORY of Jewish-Persian friendship goes back over 2,500 years, and it is unlikely there is any other example of two ...