"The Shahnameh created a formidable, unparalleled army – an army of words – that vanquished those who sought to fragment and destabilize Iran. No force could withstand this legion of countless ...

Long before HBO's wildly popular Game of Thrones was created, Iranians turned to the national literary epic 'Shahnameh" (The Book of Kings) for intriguing tales of knights, nobility and mystical ...

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

An illuminated folio from the most treasured manuscript of The Shahnameh, Persia’s Book of Kings, will reappear on October 26 alongside ornate texts and artifacts for Sotheby’s London’s latest ...

Filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian's forthcoming illustrated tome will bring new, vivid life to the epic tales of the ancient Persian kings. There has been a long tradition of depicting the stories of ...

Shahnameh (Book of Kings) is set to be performed at The Living Earth Show in March 2026. This production, part of the Roar Shack Live season, will explore themes and narratives from the classic ...

Masked actors wearing elaborate, feathered costumes manipulated puppets behind a large 15-by-30-foot screen, creating dancing shadows and silhouettes that told an ancient story of love and war. Hamid ...

Written over a thousand years ago by Aboqasem Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, continues to enthrall readers around the globe with its depictions of superhuman heroes, magical birds ...

This enlightening scholarly study will serve, for most Western readers, as their introduction to the Persian Book of Kings, “the longest epic poem in the world composed by one poet.” Written between ...

Production shingle BoomGen has taken exclusive global multimedia rights to Hyperworks Entertainment’s comicbook series “Rostam: Tales From the Shahnameh.” The books, created by the Kings Letters ...

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