Under a vast canopy of tents in the Saudi city of Jeddah, religious artefacts are on display alongside contemporary art ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

With dreamlike imagery and bold patterns, contemporary Iranian artists have reinterpreted the Persian miniature tradition.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Idina Menzel returns to Broadway, new seasons of The White Lotus and Yellowjackets, and SNL’s anniversary celebration.

Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images In one memorable ... The clue, he says, is in what Alexander did: conquer the Persian Empire. “You can’t speak of Alexander alone as if he were a kind of ...

Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire — the largest in the world at that time. Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern ...

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The history of Persian rugs spans over 2,500 years to the Achaemenid Empire, with the Pazyryk carpet (5th century BCE) ...

When Alexander the Great entered Babylon after crushing the Persian army and putting an end to the Achaemenid Persian Empire built two centuries earlier by Cyrus the Great, the people of the city ...

Jahangir took artists with him as his court traveled across the empire, and there’s a space ... “The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence” is at the V&A in South Kensington, London ...

By VOA Persian FILE - This undated photo of Pakhshan Azizi circulated on social media on July 24, 2024. The Iranian Kurdish civil activist has been sentenced to death.