Hidden by the looming shadows of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, Zoroastrianism seems a largely forgotten religion today. Yet this ancient tradition so powerfully influenced these other three faith ...

Zoroastrianism is the world’s oldest revealed religion. It is believed that it came about around the Iranian Bronze Age (1800-1100 BC). However, the date is not definite as many believe that the ...

IN SEARCH OF ZARATHUSTRA: THE FIRST PROPHET AND THE IDEAS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD By Paul Kriwaczek Knopf, $25, 248 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY SUDIP BOSE Among the opulent orchestral works of Richard ...

We bowled along the road into Uzbekistan from neighbouring Tajikistan, up and over a pass through the snowy Pamir mountains, with me intoning selected verses from Flecker's "The Golden Journey to ...

Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is a professor of history and humanities at Moreno Valley College and a Roman Catholic priest. This photo is from about 2017. (Courtesy Photo) The month of December ...

Yazd (Iran) (AFP) – A Zoroastrian priest dressed in white carefully added wood to a fire that has burned for centuries inside an Iranian temple, sacred to one of the world's oldest religions. The ...