Persian ice houses known as yakhchals were already widespread by around 400 BCE. Built using thick insulating walls and ...

Researchers using wartime aerial photos and Cold War satellite imagery have identified a vast, once-lost Persian garden complex in Iran.

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology ...

Before Persia ruled half the known world, Iran was shaped by forgotten civilizations. This episode traces the region’s path ...

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

Recent protests in Iran erupted over economic collapse and political repression. But beneath the discontent, analysts also ...

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Leicester and Durham studied historical aerial photographs and discovered a ...

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

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

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

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 “forgotten Alexandria” on the Tigris is being pulled back into focus by archaeologists using drones and geophysics, revealing what appears to have been a vast, carefully planned metropolis in ...