Atop a plateau in northwest Iran, above rolling pastures hemmed in by snowcapped mountains, rest the ruins of a sanctuary at a site known as Takht-e Soleyman, or Throne of Solomon. More than 1,500 ...
The Milwaukee County Zoo Public Museum Art Museum and Betty Brinn Children's Museum all have free admission days in February.
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime is facing scrutiny for widespread human rights violations amid weeks-long protests.
During excavations at the Hilla archaeological site in southern Bahrain, archaeologists uncovered a roughly 3,300-year-old ...
The shift from Persia to Iran didn't happen until the year 1935. The government under Reza Shah Pahlavi asked the diplomats ...
Farah Pahlavi made history in 1967 as Iran’s first and only crowned Empress. From her Paris education to imperial power, her ...
Just six hours from El Paso, the White Shaman Preserve reveals a stunning 4,000-year-old mural, blending ancient stories with ...
Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world.
What does a tantalizingly beautiful exhibit at The Rooms in St. John’s have to do with an ancient Sufi shrine in Iran and an ...
Across India, the ruins of once-powerful cities lie folded into forests, buried beneath rivers, or absorbed into modern towns ...
A prophecy about Alexander the Great is found in the Jewish Book of Daniel, which was written 200 years before his birth.
The late Bahram Beyzai, former Bita Daryabari Visiting Professor of Iranian Studies, left a lasting cultural legacy as an writer, director and playwright.