Mostafa Hadipour, director of the Chehel Sotoun World Heritage site, said a memorandum of understanding had been signed to draw on the university’s academic and research capacity to support the ...

Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz form the backbone of what many travelers think of as "Classical Persia," a route that traces the ...

ISTANBUL — There's an old Persian phrase about a particular place in the city of Isfahan — the famed Naqsh-e Jahan Square. "The sort of nickname for it is nesf-e-jahān, which means 'half the world.' ...

The city of Isfahan was twice the capital of Persia. Isfahan flourished most under the Safavid dynasty from the 16th to the 18th century when its finest monuments were created. Isfahan is one of the ...

Mostafa Hadipour, director of the World Heritage base of Chehel Sotoun Palace museum, told IRNA that several key spaces had previously been closed and inaccessible to visitors for unspecified reasons.

Iran is home to breathtaking mosques filled with intricate mosaics and a kaleidoscope of colors. But because professional photography equipment isn't permissible in most of these institutions, their ...

PARIS, March 11 - UNESCO said it is deeply concerned about the fate of world heritage sites in Iran and across the region, after Tehran's Golestan palace, often compared to Versailles, and a historic ...

Noor Art & Architecture Studio has completed a digital reconstruction of the Ayine Khaneh Palace of Isfahan, Iran. The project is led by architect Mohammad Yazdi Rad. Based on historic plans and ...