Before Persia ruled half the known world, Iran was shaped by forgotten civilizations. This episode traces the region’s path ...

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed a different innovation, the windcatcher, a 4,000 year old passive cooling ...

Crossing the border into Uzbekistan, we arrived in the heart of the Central Asian Silk Road. Our first stop was Khiva, a ...

On view are approximately 20 photographs, sketchbooks, watercolors, scale drawings, and paper casts or "squeezes" of inscriptions. All were recorded by Ernst E. Herzfeld (1879-1948) and the team of ...

This book by Antonio Panaino discusses the development of the Iranian cosmographical world and its interaction with the Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic civilizations. By undertaking such a study, the ...