The ancient faith dating back to 1700 B.C. is in danger of becoming extinct if its dwindling followers don't find a way to ...

The Uzbekistan government is on an ambitious tourism drive – but is sparring with heritage experts over how to protect its ...

TEHRAN - A model of a centuries-old passageway, which is located in the UNESCO-registered city of Yazd, has been installed at ...

In this, Alexander preserves Persia’s Zoroastrian religion. Briant says the book went ... Sisygambis, the mother of Darius ...

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TEHRAN - Iranian Kurds in the mountainous Uramanat region, which is a UNESCO World Heritage as well, gathered for the annual three-day Pir-e Shaliar festival, a centuries-old folk celebration honoring ...

They follow Zoroastrianism, the faith of the Persian kings Xerxes and ... monuments of India and they exhibit undoubted traces of the influence of Grecian art.” He further added that they “cannot, ...

While he was hated by many Athenians, who believed in democracy not monarchies or empires — and while, Cartledge says, some followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion ...

An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why. By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.