Articles about 'Persia'

The history of science has been centred for too long on the West, say Simon Schaffer and Sujit Sivasundaram. It’s time to think global.

An evening at Lucy Cavendish College next Monday will bring together speakers and musicians from Cambridge and beyond to look at the ways in which the literature, art and music of Iran have flourished through revolution and repression. The event is free and open to all.

A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.

The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson from the past, a new study suggests.

The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.