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True Iranians have remained friends of the Jews through both belief and deed. A look at the history of Iran and the Jews.
Despite the vast reach of the Ottoman Empire, from North Africa to Eastern Europe, one powerful neighbor remained unconquered: Persia. In this video, we explore the reasons why the Ottomans never ...
TEHRAN – The Persian translation of the book “Persians: The Age of the Great Kings” written by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has been ...
The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images from Osprey Publishing and Total War game footage. In Part 1, we look at ...
Nearchus, the Navigator, bridged East and West with a daring voyage that reshaped ancient maritime strategy and trade routes.
This is a Short History Of… The First Persian Empire. A Noiser production, written by Dan Smith. With thanks to Dr Christopher Farrell, assistant professor of Greek History and Culture at ...
Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...
President Donald Trump reportedly plans to announce that the U.S. will officially start referring to the Persian Gulf as the 'Arabian Gulf,' according to The Associated Press. The move would be a diss ...
Middle East Eye takes a look at the history of the naming dispute ... It found that during the Achaemenid Persian empire, between 559 and 330 BCE, the name Pars Sea was widely used in written ...
Arab nations have pushed for a change to the geographic name of the body of water off the southern coast of Iran, while Iran has maintained its historic ties to the gulf.