Map of the world according to ancient Greek geographer Strabo ... He traveled as far East as Kush, a mountainous area that covered parts of modern-day Iran and Afghanistan and as far South as Egypt ...

Credit: Mary Harrsch, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well ... He allied with Persia to resist ...

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 of ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...

A geology professor believed that aerial photos from the 1950s show evidence of an ancient city under Nakhon Ratchasima in ...

"He founded what we call the Achaemenid Empire, which is really the empire during which time we have the story of Purim.

Archaeologists discovered an ancient underground city beneath Abarkuh, Iran, where residents in Iran escaped above-ground heat. In the subterranean settlement, they found an aqueduct to transport ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

Sepandarmazgan is an ancient Iranian day of women, with Zoroastrian roots. The deity Spandarmad protected the Earth and the good, chaste and beneficent wife who loved her husband. The festival used to ...

More interesting though, is the skeleton at the back of the main chamber, which you can loot to get the Ancient Arrowhead treasure map. Be careful though because the cave is home to a beetle’s ...

The site remains an essential stop for those interested in Iran’s ancient civilizations, offering a breathtaking combination of history, mythology, and archaeology set against the dramatic backdrop of ...