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

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

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed a different innovation, the windcatcher, a 4,000 year old passive cooling ...

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

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

This book by Antonio Panaino discusses the development of the Iranian cosmographical world and its interaction with the Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic civilizations. By undertaking such a study, the ...

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

On view are approximately 20 photographs, sketchbooks, watercolors, scale drawings, and paper casts or "squeezes" of inscriptions. All were recorded by Ernst E. Herzfeld (1879-1948) and the team of ...

Crowds packed central Tehran on Friday for the unveiling of a statue celebrating an ancient Persian victory over foreign enemies -- a show of defiance toward Iran's modern-day foes in the wake of its ...

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