Iranian and European scholars specializing in Iran studies have convened in Vienna for a two-day conference titled ...

IRAN, a land with a civilization stretching back more than five thousand years, has always been one of the most significant cultural and civilizational centers in West Asia and the world. With ancient ...

Elam was an ancient civilization in what is now Iran, known through both its own records and Mesopotamian accounts. Using the Elamite Fortification Tablets from Persepolis, this food reconstruction ...

The Akkadians. The Maya. The Tang Dynasty of China. The Chaco. The Indus Civilization. These diverse societies, separated by oceans and continents, each persisted for hundreds of years. They had large ...

As Minnesotans with shared roots in one of history’s great civilizations — Iran — we write in the wake of pivotal events reshaping the Middle East. Ali was born in Tehran and came to the U.S. just ...

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 ...

Given that Chalow lay on an important ancient trade route—a corridor that remained significant well into the medieval period, connecting eastern Iran with the Gorgan Plain and the Iranian Plateau—it ...

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations explores the world's earliest cultures, from the farming settlements of Mesopotamia to the Americas and Polynesia, via the birth of Greek city ...

Take for instance, an Egyptian granary. “Yes, it’s about grain management, but the human figure in the loin cloth tells us he is not an elite, that labourers were exploited or there was politics of ...