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.

Oriental Institute Photographic Archives This collection includes all the spectacular aerial photographs of ancient sites in Iran taken by Ernst Herzfeld between 1935 and 1937. The next four maps were ...

There are hundreds of such sites with historical significance in Iran, more than 20 with Unesco ... constructions in the world, the ancient Arg-e Bam citadel was situated on the ancient Silk ...

Iran’s General Directorate of Museums has announced that it has initiated legal measures to stop the sale of two historic ...

TEHRAN - Three tourism-related projects were inaugurated in Khuzestan during a visit by the Minister of Cultural Heritage, ...

(photo credit: Jelveh and Moradi, Iran: Journal of the British ... The game, found at the archaeological site of Shahr-i Sokhta, offers a vivid glimpse into ancient pastimes and the cultural ...

He meets Leyla an archeologist who is working in the desert. She is trying to find out the secrets of Ancient Persian Sites. Together they have to fight the Iraqi Invasion army, while trying to ...

While the drive-thru window might seem like a pretty modern culinary invention, its roots may actually reach back much, much further than you'd expect.