The ancient miners lost their lives digging salt from a site that was used for centuries by various peoples living in the ...

The Nanjing Museum exhibition concluded with a small chapter dedicated to Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), the king of ...

As a member of the Iranian Assyrian community - the oldest Christian community in Iran - his story not only reflects his ...

Titled "Persian Feasts" — and rest assured that the jubilant, convivial recipes inside do indeed live up to that name — the ...

Zarei pointed out that the tomb’s open entrance has allowed people to enter freely ... with historians attributing it to various periods including the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and even ...

The third phase of a reassessment project at Tepe Sialk, a treasured 8,000-year-old archaeological site near Kashan in ...

It offers rare insights into the Medes civilisation from the 7th and 6th centuries BCE and later became a summer capital for Achaemenid ... values of the Kasena people. The Royal Court features ...

However, the Achaemenid mine was abandoned after a mining catastrophe ... Experts say that the "salt dome" deposit was being used by several people who lived in the region across ages. The new study ...

Archaeologists first thought the Salt Men dated to around 550-330BC, around the time of Persia’s Achaemenid Dynasty, the first empire to rule over the region. But a new study suggests humans may ...

These objects can tell us stories about how people lived, what they valued, and how societies evolved over time. The good thing is that you don't even need to go to museums to enjoy this ...

One of the most famous conflicts in ancient history was the clash between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greeks. The conflict between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greeks was primarily highlighted by ...