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.

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...

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