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Parthia, Gatekeeper of the Silk Road

Xerxes’ Expedition, Read From the Sources

Who Ruled the Steppe? Scythian Family Trees

Twenty Provinces, One Empire

Siraf: Persia’s Port to the World

The King’s Own Account, Carved in Three Languages

The Last Image of the Last King

Five Books from the Iranian World

Iran and the World

Abanegan: The Feast of the Waters

A Visit to Persepolis, Stop by Stop

Culture Takes Shape

The Qanat, Water Without a Pump

The Rise of the Classroom

Inside the Cyrus Cylinder

Connecting a Country

The Royal Road: 111 Stages

Ten Percent a Year

The Astronomer-King of Samarkand: Ulugh Beg

Iranian Horsemen in Roman Britain

Prime Ministers of Pahlavi Iran

One Language, Three Lives

Two Shahs, Fifty-Three Years

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi: born 26 October 1919

Iran’s 29 UNESCO Sites Layer by Layer

Ranks of the Imperial Forces

The Statue That Fell Into the Spring

One Message, Three Languages

Women in Pahlavi Iran

Life Before the Medes at Qareh Tepe

Sanskrit S Is Persian H

The Imperial Armed Forces

Every Persian Month Is a Spirit’s Name

The White Revolution

Jiroft and the Halil Rud

How Big Were Iran’s Empires

Iran in Three Censuses

Every Day Had a Name

A Board Game from the Burnt City

Persian Words Hiding in English

How Oil Fed the Budget

Five Days at Persepolis, 1971

A Warrior on the Steppe Edge

Where Did Indo-European Begin?

Iran Through the Ages

Ten Presidents, Eleven Prime Ministers

A Million Years on the Silk Road, Before the Silk Road

Eight Minds, One Lost Language

What Did Pahlavi Iran Sound Like

Out of the Steppe

Alamut: Seven Fortresses, One State

Why Father Starts With F

The Sky Father, Five Names

How Many People Did Persia Rule?

Empress Farah Pahlavi

Who Speaks Indo-European?

One Star, Eight Tongues

One Ancestor, Ten Branches

Counting to Ten in the Indo-European Family

Rulers of Iran After Islam
