Enjoy exclusive events, unlimited access to exhibitions and the Members' Room, plus discounts in the Museum shops, cafés and restaurants. Whether you explore the galleries or the new Silk Roads ...
Many countries in today’s West Asia inherit remnants from Iran’s ancient era, and a substantial portion of Iran's current cultural ties with these nations dates back to their historical dimensions ...
Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, stands as one of the greatest architectural achievements of the ancient world and is an iconic example of advanced stone carving and ...
The history of Persian Egypt is divided into two eras following the first Achaemenid conquest of Egypt punctuated by an interval of independence: Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt (525–404 BCE), also ...
An extraordinarily rare and luxurious seventeenth-century silk dress (left) is one of the 1,500 artifacts pulled from the wreck of a Dutch merchant ship found off the island of Texel in the Wadden ...