INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
said.The museum will feature exhibits from historical periods of ancient Iran, Iran in Islamic era and Iran after the 1979 Islamic
and culture throughout the country in a variety of fields and eras, he noted.Ancient Iran, also known as Persia, historic region of
southwestern Asia that is only roughly coterminous with modern Iran
The term Persia was used for centuries, chiefly in the West, to designate those regions where the Persian language and culture predominated,
but it more correctly refers to a region of southern Iran formerly known as Persis, alternatively as Pars or Parsa, modern Fars.Parsa was
the name of an Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into the region about 1000 BC
The first mention of Parsa occurs in the annals of Shalmanesar II, an Assyrian king, in 844 BC.During the rule of the Persian Achaemenian
The Achaemenids were the dominant dynasty during Greek history until the time of Alexander the Great, and the use of the name Persia was
gradually extended by the Greeks and other peoples to apply to the whole Iranian plateau.In the 7th century, the Muslim conquest of Persia,
also known as the Arab conquest of Iran, led to the fall of the Sasanian Empire of Iran in ca
651 and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion
Experts say the rise of Muslims coincided with an unprecedented political, social, economic, and military weakness in Persia.The Islamic
Revolution took place in February 1979 when the U.S.-backed regime of Mohammad Reza Shah collapsed under the weight of continual protests
