The fire festival offers a great opportunity for that. Known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi, the festival comes in the ...

Blacksmithing in Markazi has roots that stretch back thousands of years, deeply intertwined with Iranian civilization ... learn from masters who have dedicated their lives to this ancient art. These ...

Diverse elements of Chinese culture and civilization have influenced Persian literature, particularly Persian poetry. Many ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

Almost all items in the Nowruz haft-sin table can be found at Devon Market. In Iran, families arrange the haft-sin table with ...

Though influenced by Persian rugs, the Borchalo carpets produced by Zemfira and other local weavers are made of woollen yarn, rather than silk, and rely on bold, striking designs on a limited ...

Meanwhile, the launch of the inaugural Bukhara Biennial later this year will mark a pivotal moment in the country’s emergence ...

"We weren't actually looking for a pot of gold." Archaeologists were recently excavating a house from the third century B.C.E ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Ancient Game Night, “Ouroboros” and “¡A Bailar!” ...

And the client was so impressed that he paid him handsomely. The money then helped him go to school full-time. Bahram eventually went to the UK to study engineering in the 1970s. But his mind was ...

Google commemorated the arrival of spring with a special Doodle marking the Persian New Year, Nowruz 2025. This year, the ...