Researchers using wartime aerial photos and Cold War satellite imagery have identified a vast, once-lost Persian garden complex in Iran.

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Leicester and Durham studied historical aerial photographs and discovered a ...

Before Persia ruled half the known world, Iran was shaped by forgotten civilizations. This episode traces the region’s path from the Elamites and early cultures to the rise of the Achaemenid Empire ...

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed a different innovation, the windcatcher, a 4,000 year old passive cooling ...

Crossing the border into Uzbekistan, we arrived in the heart of the Central Asian Silk Road. Our first stop was Khiva, a ...

History: Prehistoric Irân -- The State of Elam: 3000-645 BC -- The coming of the Aryans -- The Achaemenian Empire: 550-330 BC -- Alexander the Great & the Seleucids -- The Parthians: 250 BC-AD 224 -- ...

Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran are usually treated separately or as part of a much broader "Ancient Near East." However, the developments that lie at the root of our own world--farming, cities, writing, ...

Crowds packed central Tehran on Friday for the unveiling of a statue celebrating an ancient Persian victory over foreign enemies -- a show of defiance toward Iran's modern-day foes in the wake of its ...

Guest: Dr Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee is a Post-doctoral Fellow in Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World ...