When Alexander the Great visited the tomb of Cyrus of Persia, he found it ransacked and ordered that the tomb be restored.

Cyrus the Great of Persia stands out even today, more than 2,500 years after his death. Not just for conquering vast lands, but for the way he did it. He wasn’t like other kings who would rely only on ...

The history of Iran, with its many twists and turns, is like watching the story of human civilization itself unfold over ...

Modest in scale yet monumental in meaning, the Cyrus Cylinder-a small baked clay artifact from the sixth century BCE-is widely regarded as one of the most important objects in world history. Buried as ...