Commentary: Nowruz, the Persian new year, is an ancient, welcoming event By K. E. Mehrfar Feb. 19, 2019 12 AM PT ...

This ancient festival is a celebration of springtime—and a brand new year Nowruz, also known as Persian New Year, has been observed for more than 3,000 years as the victory of spring over darkness.

The excavation of an ancient Greek city in Turkey uncovered a stash of gold coins from about 2,500 years ago. The find offers a glimpse into a conflict-ridden time.

An Iranian man holds up a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday ...

Israel acknowledged on Friday that an inscription in clay found in the country's south bearing the name of Darius the Great, ruler of the ancient Persian Empire, was not authentic.

The lion and the bull have been fighting, locked in stone, for nearly 2,500 years—ever since an ancient sculptor carved them into a slab of black limestone and set them into a monumental staircase at ...