History has long pitted Persian and Greek societies as moral opposites—the former, a culture of hedonists, and the latter defined by no-frills self discipline. A new exhibition titled “Luxury and ...

Depiction of a relief from Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital during the time of Sargon II. For roughly two centuries, from ca. 900 -- 700 BCE, the Near Eastern empires of Neo-Assyria and Urartu ...

Three scholars will give fresh perspectives on ancient Persia in a symposium next month at the University of Colorado Boulder. “King and Kingship in Ancient Persia” is the theme of the Seventh Annual ...

The University of Chicago is fighting an attempt to seize thousands of ancient, clay tablets from their Oriental Institute. The tablets were brought to Chicago for study in 1937. American survivors of ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Some of the most enduring ancient myths in the Persian world were centred around gardens of almost unimaginable beauty and opulence.

Some of the most enduring ancient myths in the Persian world were centred around gardens of almost unimaginable beauty and opulence. The biblical Garden of Eden and the Epic of Gilgamesh’s Garden of ...

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