It was only after an hour of wandering through Itchan Kala, the walled inner city of Khiva, that I realised I hadn’t seen ...

Archaeological finds in Iraq could rewrite the history of Christianity, revealing peaceful coexistence with Zoroastrians ...

The latest season of this ‘Iranian Spring’ began on 28 December 2025, when highly influential merchants of Tehran’s Grand ...

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

The government has privatized PIA on much the same principle as the fellow who knocked his head against the wall repeatedly.

Next to the regime’s interference in other countries, it is involved in never-ending “resistance” against the diverse ...

Chelleh Night, or Shab-e Yalda, takes place at the time of the winter solstice, around December 21, the longest night of the ...

Prominent Greek-Russian archaeologist of Pontic descent Victor Sarigiannides is the man who discovered the ancient city of ...

Zoroaster (Zarathushtra), a mysterious prophetic figure, founded Zoroastrianism in ancient Iran. While the precise date of the religion’s foundation is not known, it is believed to have been ...

Zoroaster was a prophet of ancient Persia, whose teachings laid the foundation for the religion known as Zoroastrianism, which largely dominated the land of Iran until the arrival of Islam after the ...