Persepolis has long sought to establish a database for the physical and archival organization of historical pottery, the director of the World Heritage site has announced. This data bank is a ...

The skeletons, which belong to humans and animals, have been found in the ancient water ducts of Persepolis, and they are being studied by the archeologists to estimate the historical era they belong ...

The ancient Persian capital of Persepolis, in a vast and arid plain 40 miles from Shiraz in southern Iran, is the greatest ancient site between the Holy Land and India. This is a rare place that ...

A new exhibition at the Oriental Institute will give visitors a rare glimpse inside the ancient city of Persepolis. “Persepolis: Images of an Empire,” which opens Oct. 13, includes archival ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran"s most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: tiny but persistent lichens eroding the millennia-old monuments. The fight, ...

Persepolis is a standing testament to the wonders of ancient Persia. Its ruins provide food to the imagination of what it must have looked like at the peak of its civilisation, Persia of the ...