(CBS News) Bobak Ferdowsi's patriotic Mohawk -- sported during the landing of the Mars Rover "Curiosity" last year -- earned him the name "Mohawk Guy," and gave NASA a serious dose of cool. The MIT ...

Abul-Qasem Ferdowsi Tusi (940 – 1020Ad) was born in Tus in Khorasan which is situated in today's Razavi Khorasan province in Iran. Little is known about Ferdowsi's early life. According to some data, ...

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has offered congratulations on Ferdowsi Day, observed on the 25th of Ordibehesht in the Iranian calendar, which falls on May 15 this year. Baghaei wrote ...

The event honored the legacy of Abu’l-Qasem Ferdowsi Tusi (c. 935– c. 1020-26 CE), the celebrated Persian poet and author of the Shahnameh (“Book of Kings”), the Persian national epic, which, ...

The masterpiece that Ferdowsi created was not only a literary work, but also a semantic system for the combination of epic, wisdom, morality, and identity, IRNA reported. May 15 as a day to mark ...

Last year's Mars landing by the NASA rover Curiosity was a nail-biter broadcast live from the control room at the Jet Propulsion Lab in La Cañada Flintridge. Yet as the rover touched down, much of the ...

TEHRAN: To mark the birthday anniversary Iranians to commemorate Abolqassem Ferdowsi paying tribute to great epic poet as May 14 is celebrated as Ferdowsi Day. According to a report published in Iran ...

Not being confined to a particular region, Persian literature has had a great influence on world literature helping us understand the ancient history of the world. One of the most important and ...

Each year on Ordibehesht 25, which aligns with May 15, the global community pauses to honor the Great Poet Ferdowsi, the monumental Persian poet celebrated for his epic masterpiece, Shahnameh. This ...