Tarhana is a dried food made from a fermented mixture of grain and yoghurt or fermented milk, found across Central Asian, Southeast European and Middle Eastern cuisines. In its dry state, it appears ...

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

The idea of a triple alliance consisting of Greece, Cyprus and Israel is a good one. However, given the nature of the Turkish ...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has seized a foreign oil tanker near Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf, ...

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

The Three Wise Men in biblical texts may have finally been revealed, and it could rewrite the stories which claimed they were ...

Indian pigeons, or kabootars, got a Bollywood boost in 1989 with Salman Khan’s Maine Pyar Kiya and the song, ‘Kabootar Ja Ja Ja’. Bhagyashree sang, “Kabootar ja ja ja...pehele pyar ki peheli chitthi ...

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Zoo announced the name of its new female Masai giraffe on Tuesday. “Kasi,” which means “speed” in ...

An ambitious new plans for reforming football will blend a creative and technical approach with ideas drawn from national ...

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.

Greek tragedy is radical because it does not treat the chorus as passive, but as a surrogate public, a dramatized citizen ...

Whether motivated by politics or drunken revelry, the destruction of Persepolis haunted its conqueror until the end of his ...