One hundred years ago, at a remote spot in the Persian mountains, the earth suddenly started to rumble and, as men shouted with jubilation and trepidation, a stinking black torrent burst through ...

The site of the historic Battle of Granikos, where Alexander the Great secured a pivotal victory over the Persian Empire ... and after crossing the mountains, descended to the Biga Plain, reaching ...

A newspaper article led us to Kurdistan in northern Iraq, where conservation biologist Hana Raza had discovered Persian leopards inhabiting oak and pistachio woodlands high up in the mountains.