Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

Persepolis, Old Persian Parsa, or modern Takht-e Jamshid is an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran (Persia), located about 50 km northeast of Shiraz in the Fars region ...

Flash flooding has killed at least 21 people in Iran's southern Fars province. The city of Estahban was hardest hit with heavy rain swelling the Roudbal river, governor Yousef Kargar said.

They were scouting for oil in Iran. They found an ancient temple instead. Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of ...

Flash flooding has killed at least 21 people in Iran's southern Fars province. The city of Estahban was hardest hit with heavy rain swelling the Roudbal river, governor Yousef Kargar said.