On the broad plain west of Yerevan, within sight of the snow-capped peak of Mount Ararat, rises a modest hill that holds one of the oldest and most fascinating archaeological
In the green foothills of the Greater Caucasus, in what is now northern Azerbaijan, lie the ruins of a city that was once the capital of a kingdom most people
On the outskirts of Kashan, an old oasis city on the edge of the great central desert of Iran, rises a weathered mound crowned by the eroded remains of a
Beneath the busy streets of Hamadan, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Iran, lies the buried capital of a vanished empire. This is Ecbatana, known in ancient times
In the far southeast of Iran, near the border with Afghanistan, lies a vast field of low mounds and scattered pottery baking under the sun of the Sistan desert. This