Embark on a journey through Iran, a country brimming with ancient history, mysticism, and timeless traditions. This ...

When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under a torrent of ash in A.D. 79, it also preserved one of the ancient world’s most ...

“Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World” is strong on examples of material culture — the pottery, jewelry, coins, metalwork and stone vessels, architecture and other common objects of ...

The name reflects the modern Farsi pronunciation of Darius, the ancient king. After the 1979 Islamic revolution, hard-line clerics opposed any symbols from Iran’s pre-Islamic days.

An inscription bearing the name of a Persian king is "not authentic," the Israel Antiquities Authority ... Darius I ruled the ancient Persian Achaemenid Empire from 522 BC until his death in 486 ...

An ancient shard bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great that was announced to have been found earlier this week is “not authentic,” Israel’s Antiquities Authority (IAA) said ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority sent out a message on Friday morning that the shard with the name Darius the great on it is not authentic. The Aramaic inscription read “Year 24 of Darius ...

Only one ancient portrait preserves the image of Darius III, the king who lost two great battles to Alexander the Great and ceded control of the Persian Empire.A Roman mosaic artist of the first ...

The inscription on a Persian pottery shard bearing the name of Darius the Great was declared fake. An expert revealed that she altered the artifact at an Israeli site.