TEHRAN - A new phase of archaeological excavations has commenced on the ruins of Valerian’s Palace in the ancient city of ...

TEHRAN-Hakim Nizami is a poet who has an enduring status and lasting legacy throughout the Persian-speaking lands. With the ...

The historian Moshe Sharon demonstrated in 2002 that the detailed descriptions of the battles of the Islamic conquests provided by Islamic historians such as Baladhuri, Waqidi, and Tabari (notably the ...

During the Achaemenid era, Queen Mandana played a crucial role. In the Sassanid period, Queen Pourandokht became the first woman to ascend the throne—one of only three female rulers in ancient ...

Michel Gurfinkielis a French conservative journalist and public intellectual. He served as editor-in-chief of Valeurs Actuelles from 1985 to 2006. A visionary facing the hostility of his fellow ...

The constant civil wars attracted barbarians to attack from all directions as well as the old Roman rival on the East, the Sassanid Empire. Between 270 and 270 AD, Queen Zenobia established her own ...

Yet many centuries and historical lessons have passed since then. Today, the Sassanid Empire is long gone, and Christianity has largely abandoned its pre-modern marriage with coercive state power ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...