The ancient Persian capital of Persepolis, in a vast and arid plain 40 miles from Shiraz in southern Iran, is the greatest ancient site between the Holy Land and India. This is a rare place that ...

Persepolis is a standing testament to the wonders of ancient Persia. Its ruins provide food to the imagination of what it must have looked like at the peak of its civilisation, Persia of the ...

For this reason, several excavations and exploration seasons were carried out to find Persepolis’ ancient water ducts and study how they worked. Hamid Fadai, the director of the UNESCO-registered site ...

Mr. Abdolreza Nasiri told reporters on Saturday that media stories that Persepolis had been inundated by rain water were inaccurate; “no ancient monument including Persepolis Complex had been damaged ...

The skeletons, which belong to humans and animals, have been found in the ancient water ducts of Persepolis, and they are being studied by the archeologists to estimate the historical era they belong ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran’s most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: tiny but persistent lichens eroding the millennia-old monuments.

The fight, which began years ago, is aimed at stopping the threat to the integrity of the site's structures and its intricate carvings from lichens, organisms that grow on surfaces like stone and ...

For this reason, several excavations and exploration seasons were carried out to find Persepolis’ ancient water ducts and study how they worked. Hamid Fadai, the director of the UNESCO-registered site ...