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 ...

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 resolutely pro-Israel son of the former Shah of Iran, seeks to dismantle the Iranian regime and foster a ...

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.

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

Again Iran?” — asked those around me upon hearing that I’m traveling to Iran for the fourth time, and for the third time at ...

These spectacular stone structures represent some of the most significant depictions of the religious and funerary practices of an ancient society that drew on both its Greek and Persian heritage.

Ancient Greek inscriptions appear on some of the most prominent buildings in the world, whether on a historical building or ...