As US and Israeli bombardments rained down on Iran, damaging some cherished cultural sites, scores of Persian artifacts were safe and sound, 5,000 kilometers away in northern China, under the watchful ...

For more than a century, scholars stared at the same strange marks and got almost nowhere. The signs belonged to Linear Elamite, a 4,000-year-old writing system from ancient Iran. They appeared on ...

Sirat’s name in Farsi means “transcending beauty.” She said her art, like her name, strives to transcend her lived experience ...

Conflict creates opportunities for looters to plunder archaeological sites for profit. Iran is a prime target, home to one of the world’s richest archaeological landscapes, where portable and valuable ...

Rather than existing outside politics, the Venice Biennale has become a site where geopolitical tensions are actively staged ...