For over 600 years carpets from Anatolia, Turkey and Persia have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by ...

The use of Persian carpets in papal funeral proceedings may seem like a surprising choice—that is, to those unaware of the long history of carpets from the Islamic world in Christian contexts.

While the world debates bombs and sanctions, Iran is quietly running out of water — its land cracked, lakes vanished, and ...

The mosque has a tile inscription on its façade, which bears the name of Naser al-Din Shah (1831-1896), the reigning monarch ...

Today we are in Iran, with the ruling Safavid Dynasty, and with a portable declaration of faith. The Safavid Dynasty came to power in 1501, and it established Shi'a Islam as the state religion of ...

The Rabat Qoli Caravanserai, a centuries-old waystation in North Khorasan’s Jajrom County in Iran, stands as a testament to ...

Iran has formally submitted two major cultural heritage dossiers to UNESCO for potential inscription on the World Heritage ...