Check if you have access via personal or institutional login From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE). The Talmud is ...

From its origins in Arabia, the Muslim faith spread rapidly and developed a distinctive culture, including a form of art that ...

Within the depths of an ancient Chehrābād salt mine in Iran, multiple miners met a grisly end thousands of years ago. Over ...

Instead they are linked to Zoroastrianism, once the official religion of the Sasanian Empire, which existed in modern-day Iran. The empire was the “last Iranian empire before the early Muslim ...

A local hiker has accidentally discovered a clay canteen believed to date back to the Parthian era during an outing on the ...

There’s a useful website IslamQA.org that aggregates answers to questions about Islamic practice. “Are KP Skips Prawn ...

The death of Muhammad and the Arab-Muslim conquests opened a new era in Middle Eastern civilizations. The Arab-Muslim conquests initiated the long historical process that culminated in the ...

This imagery is unusual in western Europe but it is linked with the iconography of Zoroastrianism, the state religion of the Sasanian Empire which was the last Persian empire before the early ...

Incredible images of 2,500-year old mummies buried deep underground in a salt mine have preserved their bodies just as they ...

Persian calligraphy is one of the most revered arts throughout Persian history and is an example of fine Persian culture. We ...

The worship of Lord Ganesha dates back to ancient times, from the 5th century BCE to the 11th century CE. Many references to ...

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city ...