The Shahnameh, the world's longest epic by Ferdowsi, narrates Iran's ancient past. New translations are introducing its ...

Introduction: -- Outline of Persian history -- Sources of the myths -- Nature of myth -- Ancient Persian Mythology: -- Picture of the universe: -- Ancient gods: -- Vayu, wind --Tishtrya and the demon ...

Astonishingly ambitious in breadth, 2-D animated feature “The Last Fiction,” the first such film entirely realized in Iran, refashions ancient Persian mythology into an inventively lyrical and ...

The Cyrus Cylinder, an object from the ancient world that was never intended to be seen at all, will have an entire exhibition devoted to it at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. "It's a very ...

A Hercules-like hero and a rival princess secretly conceive a son, Sohrab, in an ancient Persian myth. Romance turns to tragedy when Sohrab is later killed by his own estranged father in battle. A ...

An unusual clay jar fragment depicting a ‘grotesque’ ancient deity for scaring away evil spirits has been discovered in Israel. The fragment, which dates back to the 4th or 5th century B.C., was ...