The Old and New Persian Empires | Opinion. Published May 28, 2020 at 3:20 PM EDT Updated Mar 14, ... as part of the shah's national commemoration marking 2,500 years of the Persian Empire.

Old Persian writing was the first of the cuneiform scripts to be deciphered, between about 1800 and 1845. When the script was cracked, scholars saw that the Old Persian language was an ancestor of ...

TEHRAN, Iran – Iranians are preparing for the annual Nowruz holiday that marks the Persian New Year and the arrival of spring. The holiday, dating back to at least 1700 B.C. and ancient ...