Shahnameh or Shah-nameh is a Persian national epic, presented to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna and completed in 1010. It is a poem ...

Biryani has become synonymous with Hyderabad. When you think of one youre bound to think of the other. There are many stories ...

The scale of the event was staggering, with 18 tons of food, 180 waiters, and 25,000 bottles of wine to serve the elite ...

and Persia. During this time, Nadir Shah, an invader from Iran and founder of the Afsharid dynasty, arrived and led a ...

Iran has cited a 19th-century British map as part of its dispute with the United Arab Emirates over a number of Gulf islands.

With Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 85, reportedly severely ill, Mojtaba Khamenei seems poised to fill his father's shoes.

Afghanistan has been like a soccer ball kicked around by competing empires since Alexander the Great conquered Persia in 300 ...

Simply put, everything is not what it seems when it comes to the inspiration behind some of history's most recognizable ...

They bear witness to the master painters and calligraphers whose work flourished thanks to the deep pockets of elites; they ...

In its 2,500 years, Persia has been overrun by conquerors ranging ... Farah Diba—who share dulcet memories of France, since the Shah first met his young Queen-to-be while she was an architecture ...