The inscription on a Persian pottery shard bearing the name of Darius the Great was declared fake. An expert revealed that she altered the artifact at an Israeli site.

At least one of the Persian artifacts had been sawed in half, he added. “This is Mandana, so beautiful, our love,” Meybodi said in Persian, his voice heavy with emotion as expatriate Iranian ...

WASHINGTON — A nearly 2,600-year-old clay cylinder that’s been described as the world’s first human rights declaration is being shown for the first time in the U.S.

N-126: 1. Blue pamphlet. "Composition of Ancient Persian Artifacts". Spectrographic metallographic analysis by Lucius Pitkin. Inc. N.Y., Objects probably from prehistoric finds at Nihavand or Harsin ...

The United States has returned to Iran an ancient Persian artifact known as the Griffin. Iran's vice president Mohammad-Ali Najafi unveiled the artifact in Tehran's Mehrabad airport after returning ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran is displaying hundreds of ancient and Persian artifacts, some dating back as far as 3,500 years and all of them recently brought back home from museums and collections in Wes ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A legal battle over ancient Persian artifacts has the Iranian government asking for Washington to intervene and the University of Chicago defending the Islamic regime in ...

The figurine was found during an excavation led by archaeologists from the University of Warsaw. It is the first of its kind discovered in the Persian Gulf, though similar artifacts have been ...