Emotional responses were elicited by Michael Stevenson and Andy Warhol

A modernisation project might just save an unearthed historical site in Iran that could one day prove to be invaluable to the study of the region.

Archaeologically, architecturally and art-historically, Iran is very much on the move

The first survey of a fashion for portraiture that swept the Persian court lifts the veil on Iranian history

The greatest surviving Persian manuscript was swapped for Woman III, once owned by the Shah of Iran