In the Elamite times Shushtar was known as Adamdun. In the Achaemenian times its name was Šurkutir. The modern name,Shushtar, is connected with the name of another ancient city, Susa (or Shush, in Persian pronunciation), and means “greater (or better) than Shush.” During the Sassanian era, it was an island city on the Karun river and selected to become the ...

10. Louisiana State Penitentiary – USA Formerly known as the Angola prison, this is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States. It houses more than five thousand prisoners. The prison has a large farm where inmates are required to work long hours. They even participate in rodeos. However, various reports of human rights violations and abuse have emerged from ...

While popular culture has been always more favorable to the Greeks (especially the Spartans), history still has a few accounts of the mighty deeds and feats of their oft media-abused ‘barbaric’ adversaries – the Persians. As a matter of fact, this advanced eastern realm has long been the cultural as well as military opponents of the Mediterranean-based classical civilizations; and as such, ...

In a ceremony in Tehran, two hotels of Imam Khomeini International Airport were contracted to French group AccorHotels.In a ceremony in Tehran, in presence of French ambassador to Tehran, AccorHotels’ chief executive Sebastien Bazin and representatives of Iranian company Aria Ziggurat signed a contract according to it a 4 star hotel and a 5 star one in the vicinity of ...

It is the ultimate mirage in the desert. At first glance, the mirrored circles, partially covered in the golden sand, appear to be small ponds. Only after a moment do we realize that it is actually the sky, reflected across the dunes One of the first uses of mirrors in architecture was in Persepolis, Persia at the Tachara Palace. Glossy ...