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, ...

From one point of view, its history stretches back to 224 CE, when a Persian nobleman named Ardashir, son of Papak, son of Sasan, dethroned the lawful ruler in Persia, Artabanus IV, king of the ...

Thanks to the miracle of modern electronics, plus a taste for theater honed as a college student in Chicago, Farzin Rezaeian has restored the glory of ancient Persia–at least to the silver screen. “As ...

Mohammad-Javad Jafari, director of the Persepolis World Heritage site, said farming in the site’s first-degree buffer zone is allowed only under tightly controlled conditions and that changes to ...

Much of what is known of ancient Persia's history has been informed by studies of the magnificent site of Persepolis, the capital of the Achaemenid Persian Empire from the 6th to the 4th centuries BC.

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 ...

Persepolis, Old Persian Parsa, or modern Takht-e Jamshid is an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran (Persia), located about 50 km northeast of Shiraz in the Fars region of ...

The lion and the bull have been fighting, locked in stone, for nearly 2,500 years—ever since an ancient sculptor carved them into a slab of black limestone and set them into a monumental staircase at ...

Built in the 6th century BC, Persepolis has withstood destruction, looting, earthquakes, fires and harsh weather — ATTA KENARE Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran's most iconic ancient site, are ...

Conservationists wage delicate battle against lichens eroding millennia-old monuments Persepolis: Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran’s most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against ...

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, ...