NEW YORK-- Thousands of people took to the streets of Midtown on Sunday to highlight their Persian culture and temporarily take their minds off the tensions in the Middle East. A sea of red filled ...

For instance, Tachara Palace is among the reliable sources when it comes to the history of Persian writing. The gorgeous ruins bear noteworthy inscriptions and bas-relief carvings. As mentioned by ...

Mojtaba Doroodi, who is a specialist in historical linguistics, etymology, and Iranian languages, believes the (modern) Persian language tightly follows Middle and Old Persian, whose inscriptions ...

A warning has gone out to seafarers in the Persian Gulf over what appear to be attempts by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to compel ships to enter Iranian waters. While Iran has a history of harassing and ...

President Donald Trump is reportedly to rename the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf ahead of his trip to the Middle East in the coming days. The expected announcement was first reported Wednesday by ...

Nowruz, meaning “New Day” in Persian, marks the first day of the Persian calendar and coincides with the spring equinox (usually March 20 or 21). Celebrated by millions across the world, it is ...

For a native Sanskrit speaker meeting an Avestan speaker around 3,500 years ago, basic communication might have been challenging. Yet there was enough common ground between the languages to at least ...

Two of the nine rulers of Britishprotected states in the Persian Gulf area have now been deposed. They are the first victims of a campaign to resist the rapid growth of republican feeling among the ...

It took Iranian Jews now living in the United States nearly three decades in exile from the land they called home for roughly 2,700 years to appreciate their rich history and culture preserved in ...