until appraisers said it was an ancient Persian artifact. The 5½-inch gold cup, which experts have dated to the third or fourth century B.C., fetched $100,000 at an auction in Dorchester ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the ...

The Iranians refused to pay up, of course, so the victims have tried to seize Iranian assets in America, including ancient Persian artifacts loaned to the Field Museum and the University of ...

Turkey discovered a bunch of ancient artifacts dating back to old civilizations. Ancient artifacts found in northwestern Turkey from the ancient civilizations of Thrace, Persia, Macedonia, Rome ...