The Arab army prevailed and continued on its march into Persia, now Iran. A joint team of archeologists from the U.K.'s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

Archaeologists have located the site of an important seventh-century battle in southern Iraq by using Cold War satellite ...

There, with permission from Iranian authorities, scientists from the museum, Cranfield University and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source studied the ancient weapons using a non-invasive imaging ...

“The Iranian period is finished, I think,” Rifi told me. “In Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen.” ...

Iran was one of the greatest empires of the ancient world, and has long maintained a distinct cultural identity by retaining its own language and adhering to the Shia interpretation of Islam. Read ...

A cache of 3,000-year-old Iranian swords seized at Heathrow Airport have been revealed to be fakes created using ancient hilts and blades. Collectors and museums began widely acquiring Iranian ...

Tehran says Iran is using "all available means to respond firmly and effectively" to Israel's deadly strikes on Iranian ...