Following is a transcript of the video. Hand woven with the finest materials including wool and silk, a single Persian rug can often take years and sometimes decades to create. A high-quality ...

Floor Coverings from Kashmir by Promil Pande investigates the legacies behind the legends of Kashmiri carpets.

The famous conqueror’s burial location remains a mystery, but new research claims that material found in one of the iconic ...

We were able to eliminate a couple of contenders immediately: one rug that felt more like a dish towel, and another that looked like a thin, faded ghost of a Persian rug. We set the rest up in the ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran’s most iconic ancient site, are waging a battle against an unlikely enemy. They are fighting lichens, organisms that grow on surfaces like stone and can ...

Nothing ties a room together quite like a luxurious rug. If you happen to be looking for the perfect option to complete your space, Wayfair is an absolute gold mine of rugs. Whether you’re ...

They are ancient paths, trodden by feet and hooves ... Stopping for the night, the Zamani family shares a meal laid out on colorful rugs. In the distance a thunderstorm was brewing as one couple ...

Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer Iwan Maktabi, one of the Middle East region’s leading handmade carpet houses, presented a ...

Ancient caravans from Persia possibly included longhair cats ... Their fur can range from rabbit-like softness to the density of a hand-tied rug. Today's Bengal can be traced back to cats bred in 1963 ...

The Egyptian government is reported to have spent over $1 billion on the museum, which will house relics, mummies and artifacts from ancient Egypt. It’s also a very budget-friendly country ...

On the walls are poems in Farsi, photos of ancient Persian sights and paintings by David Hockney. Each table has a cloth ...

“All I can remember is telling my mother once when she was angry at me for deliberately spilling my oatmeal onto the oriental rug to not have ... cows,” said one ancient man.