Oriental Institute Photographic Archives This collection includes all the spectacular aerial photographs of ancient sites in Iran taken by Ernst Herzfeld between 1935 and 1937. The next four maps were ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has called on the country’s armed forces to remain combat-ready despite the start ...

But its archaic military system was decisively overmatched by the strategic and tactical innovations ... The author, a professor of ancient history at Cardiff University, is the director of the ...

Mouldy half-finished food on bunk beds, discarded military uniforms and abandoned weapons - these are the remnants of an abrupt retreat from this base that once belonged to Iran and its affiliated ...