The Achaemenid kings of Persia ruled between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C., but much of what we know about them today comes from Greek rather than Persian sources. The various Greek authors who ...

The "Shahnama" is a terrifying book. Not because it is long, though with 50,000 verses, it is long indeed. Nor because it is dry or taxing on the reader. As translator Dick Davis demonstrated in his ...

Originally published in three volumes: Washington, DC : Mage Publishers, c2000-2005, under the titles: Fathers and Sons; Sunset of Empire ; and, The Lion and the Throne. The first kings -- The ...

A new statue unveiled in recent days in Iran depicts a Roman emperor in subjection to a Persian king. Erected in Tehran’s Enghelab Square, the statue titled Kneeling Before Iran shows the emperor ...

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Epic of the Persian Kings: the Art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh', held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 11 September 2010 to 9 January 2011, in ...