Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society that could upend the accepted narrative of where writing and urban life began.

In this photo taken on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, an Iranian journalist takes note as she covers a show displaying some 550 ancient Persian artworks returned by Western countries, including the United ...

The Shahnameh, the world's longest epic by Ferdowsi, narrates Iran's ancient past. New translations are introducing its ...

Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite, scattered widely across Iran. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

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