TEHRAN - A stone fragment believed to originate from Persepolis has been officially handed over to the Cultural Heritage, ...

The Persian shahenshah adopted this symbol around 500 BC. India’s Ashoka adopted only the lion as a royal symbol in 250 BC, ...

Themistocles will always be lauded as the great general who pushed the Persians out of Greece with his strategy in the Battle ...

Mughal emperor Aurangzeb got his brother Dara Shikoh beheaded in Delhi and presented his head to their father, Shah Jahan, ...

They penned letters to the Persian throne, demanding a halt to construction. And so, as the Temple lay in suspended animation and the Jews of Jerusalem faced hostility, the Purim story unfolded ...

A giant carpet being made for the Throne Room at Hillsborough Castle will take 100 artists and craftspeople, designers, ...

The King, who never realized that Esther was Jewish, is outraged at Haman. He has his minister executed. In subsequent conversations with Esther, Achasverosh grants the Jews the right to self-defense ...

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

The most well-known Jewish holiday is probably either Passover or Hanukkah. Passover is prescribed in the Bible, while ...

Yet Ahasuerus — as vainglorious, amoral, and mercurial as ever — remains firmly on the throne. What assurance ... to which the cream of Persian Jewry was invited. The Jews of that era imagined ...

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