Introduction / John Curtis -- 1. Five unpublished Persepolis relief fragments in the Ashmolean Museum / Paul Collins -- 2. Where did the Persian kings live in Babylon? / John Curtis -- 3. The use of ...

Correction: The original version of this article misquoted Jeffrey Spier as saying the Getty Villa has mostly Greek, Roman and Tuscan classical art. In fact, the Getty Villa has mostly Greek, Roman ...

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A team of Israeli and German archaeologists has found the skeletal remains of up to 89 individuals, most of them infants and young children, inside a repurposed ancient cistern at Tel Azekah, a site ...

The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian ...

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, located on the west coast of the United Arab Emirates. This area contains traces ...

Invasions of ancient Persia were always daunting tasks. They often led to disaster. In the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, the Persian empire came to dominate a vast and varied geography with Iran at its ...

A claim regarding an unusual manner of debate apparently practiced by ancient Persians has appeared on social media every so often. According to the claim, men in the Persian Empire would debate ideas ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Invasions of ancient Persia were always daunting tasks. They often led to disaster. In the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, the Persian empire came to dominate a vast and varied ...