TEHRAN - Persepolis was one of four important cities that made up the center of the mighty Achaemenid Empire that once stretched from the Indus River to Ethiopia.

Persepolis is the Greek name for the city of Parsa. It is situated on the Marvdasht plain, on the high Iranian plateau, with its back sheltered from the north winds by the great Kuh-e

TEHRAN – The 15th edition of the Fajr Festival of Visual Arts opened on Friday evening at the Saba Art and Cultural Institute in Tehran.

440 artworks in the categories of painting, illustration, cartoon, photography, calligraphy, graphic design, sculpture and miniature are competing for Golden Tooba in the official section.

In addition, 274 works in

TEHRAN – The Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow plans to hang paintings by Iranian artist Hassan Ruholamin in an exhibition opening on February 4.

Fourteen works produced over the past three years will be showcased at the exhibit entitled “Painting of the Heart”.

Among the works selected for the exhibition, there are not only compositions imbued with