The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid, or Persian, Empire that historians say ...

Ancient Persian architecture, as if narrating a story, reveals centuries of conquests, spiritual journeys, and majestic empires that have shaped its landscape. These stories weave together over 2,500 ...

Walking through history in an ancient Persian city ... ,” Javaherbin re-creates a walk through Isfahan with her father, punctuated by stops at many of the city’s notable buildings, ...

More architects in the United Arab Emirates, the host of this year’s U.N. climate summit, are moving past glass skyscrapers and focusing on sustainability. By Jenny Gross Photographs by Katarina ...

If the rock-cut architecture and associated stone basins at Teniky are the work of a community with Zoroastrian origins, this would strongly point to a former Persian presence in southern ...