Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

The Babylonian Exile, a traumatic and critical period in Jewish history, saw thousands of Jews deported to Babylon following the conquest of Judah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II.During their ...

Israel and the U.S. are bombing military and government sites in Iran, destroying or jeopardizing its cultural and artistic ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to imagine futuristic skylinesmelding ziggurats with modernism in a visionary ...

According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and ...

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Iranian-American writer Kaveh Akbar about how he's processing the U.S. strikes again Iran through writing.

Isfahan, one of three cities targeted in American military strikes, is home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a mosque that ...