No country is more anxious to demonstrate its freedom than Iran, no ruler anywhere is more ... pictured himself as a 20th-century Darius even when he was still only a cavalry colonel.

“There are even details about Darius I’s barber on one of these ... from the Achaemenid Empire on display at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran. EFE/Jaime León Negotiations with Other ...

TEHRAN - On Sunday, May 18, coinciding with International Museum Day, a ceremony was held at the National Museum of Iran to ...

The museum was inaugurated in 1977 during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was deposed by Islamic revolutionaries two years later. Its design was inspired by Iran's desert wind towers ...

Videos and photos from the protest do not show the red banner with Iran’s supreme leader displayed on the museum. In the video, a large, red banner unfurled from an ornate building in front of a ...