The timing of Israel’s strike, days before the holiday, prompted religious and political figures to invoke themes from the ...

Ancient Iran was home to numerous exceptionally powerful kings throughout history. This was particularly so in the era of the ...

Long before Islam and even before Zoroastrianism, Iranian tribes followed an ancient Indo-Iranian religion ...

Today is Purim, the holiday that commemorates events in the ancient Persian Empire between 486-465 BCE, during the reign of King Ahasuerus—often identified with Xerxes I or Artaxerxes I. The entire ...

Persia gave way to Iran in international diplomacy, but the deeper narrative is not one of rupture -- it is one of continuity, an affirmation that the name a people choose for themselves carries the ...

A shipment declared as “metal decorative articles” turned out to be something else entirely - dozens of ancient weapons, believed to be looted from Iran. US border officials in Philadelphia have now ...

Milk traces in pottery and teeth show goat and sheep dairy was used in Iran 9,000 years ago, among the earliest evidence of ...