My struggle now, as it was when I was a child, is finding the works that excel without grading on a curve, works that aren’t ...

The First Kings. The Reign of Kayumars. What does the Persian poet say about the first man to seek the crown of world sovereignty? No one has any knowledge of those first days, unless he has heard ...

An epic poem written in the 11th Century helped save the Persian language, writes Joobin Bekhrad. To say that, by and large, we Iranians are proud of our ancient culture and the Persian language ...

The Shahnama or Book of Kings is an epic poem written in 1010 and containing about 60,000 couplets. Its author was Abu Al-Qasim Firdausi. Unique and lavish renditions of this story have been created ...

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

The film, loosely based on the Charles Dickens book "The Life of our Lord," has already generated over $7.8 million in presales, according to a Monday press release.

The Book of 1 Kings. Chapter 1 Fasten your seatbelt—here come the sexiest, schemingest, soap-operatic Bible chapters since the Garden of Eden!. Like your grandma, King David is always cold, no ...

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

BALTIMORE -- The small boats rolled and leaked. The horses must have hated the slow voyage. Fodder rotted in the hold. Suits of mail rusted. Thirteenth-century crusading must have been brutal ...