The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

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Language blends Canadian and Iranian filmmaking traditions into a mythic new creation. The film sometimes feels a little like ...

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Nik Wheeler “Oh your city! Oh your house! Oh your people!” wrote a scribe of ancient Sumer ... of a series of marshes that extended to the Persian Gulf shore. The people constructed mud ...

It’s a mistake to leave out human rights when President Trump’s administration sits down with Iran over its nuclear program.

Using advanced drone-deployed LiDAR and ground penetrating radar technologies, researchers from Macedonia’s Institute and ...

Two Italian scientists claim to have discovered 38,000-year-old structures buried deep beneath the pyramids. But there's a ...