The events in Shushan were never merely about the Jews of Persia. Just a few years before Esther’s miraculous rise, we had ...
ToI's diplomatic reporter talks about the complex historical ties between the two peoples -- and why Israel was arming Iran after the Islamic revolution ...
"We weren't actually looking for a pot of gold." Archaeologists were recently excavating a house from the third century B.C.E ...
Azerbaijanis in Iran, like many other non-Persian ethnic minority groups living under the Islamic Republic, face repression ...
A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.