The Alpaiwala Museum in Mumbai city traces the origins and history of the fast-dwindling Parsi community.

Nowruz, meaning "new day," is the Persian New Year, which has been celebrated for over 3,000 years. It marks the arrival of spring and symbolises renewal and rebirth. In 2025, Nowruz falls on ...

Persepolis, Old Persian Parsa, or modern Takht-e Jamshid is an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran (Persia), located about 50 km northeast of Shiraz in the Fars region of ...

With a history cycling through periods of growth, conquest and revival, Zoroastrianism flourished around 550 B.C. in the Achaemenian Persian Empire.

THE northern frontier of the Roman Empire is shown in atlases of ancient geography, and that of the Achaemenian Empire of the Persians and of the dynasties which succeeded in the Middle East. The ...

Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed in Luristan Province by Dr. Friedrich Sarre, famed Berlin ...

The magnificent ruins of Persepolis, an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran, rest at the foot of Kuh-e Rahmat (Mountain of Mercy) in the south-west of the country.

Most travel on some kind of road everyday, but how did they get there? Here's the long and winding history of roads and highways from Mesopotamia to modern day.

Plots of murder, both real and imagined, consumed Alexander the Great's thoughts, turning him against former comrades in arms.