What was so special about Belisarius was that he accepted the bargain. Doing the right thing was enough. Serving his country, his God, and doing his duty faithfully was all that mattered. Any ...

True Iranians have remained friends of the Jews through both belief and deed. A look at the history of Iran and the Jews.

Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the ...

The renowned Silk Road was a network of trade routes that spanned the Asian, North African, and European continents between ...

Moradi The Royal Garden, known in Persian as ... of the splendor of Sasanian civilization—a space where politics, religion, and nature converged in a carefully designed harmony meant to showcase the ...

In Roman times, Persia was ruled by two different regimes. From 247 BCE-244 CE it was called the Parthian Empire, and from 224-651 CE it was ruled by a different dynasty and renamed the Sasanian ...

Little over a century later, Parthia would fall, defeated not by Rome, but by the Persian rebel Ardashir. Ardashir would become the first Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire. His Sasanian ...

implicitly casting them as part of a succession of rightful rulers of Iran despite their non-Persian origins. In the vibrant “Bahram Gur Kills the Horned Wolf,” the 5th-century Sasanian king ...

Zoroastrianism was the dominant state religion of the Persian Sasanian Empire (224-656 AD). After the conquest of the Sasanian Empire by the Arabs in the mid-seventh century AD, Islam was imposed.