Herodotus, often called the Father of History, also possessed the mindset and utilized the methods of a modern social ...

Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Wu Xin recently gave a lecture on “Imperial Foundations of the ...

The skull of a young woman found at a Copper Age cemetery in Iran has revealed evidence of cranial modification along with a ...

As I prepared to take a photograph of an anti-American mural outside of the former U.S. Embassy in Iran’s capital recently, a ...

Cyrus the Great (590-529 BCE) was known as an innovative warrior and a benevolent king. He expanded the Achaemenid Dynasty to ...

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former Shah of Iran, is fast emerging as a potentially pivotal figure in Middle Eastern ...

Crusader Kings 3 just got its Legacy of Persia DLC, but every base game owner will see Console Update #17 now live.

Greek, the oldest written language still in use, has shaped culture, philosophy, and science for over 3,700 years.

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

Over the last century or so, a great deal has been said about the god Mithras and his mysteries, which became known to the European world mainly through his Roman cultus during the Imperial Period.

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

Throngs of people flocked to southern Hong Kong on Saturday to watch the iconic dragon boat races, a highlight of a Chinese ...