Rustam Nabiev becomes the first double amputee to climb Mount Everest using only his arms without prosthetics.

Russian mountaineer Rustam Nabiev, who lost both legs in a military barracks collapse, has become the first double amputee to scale Mount Everest using only his arms without prosthetics. The former pa ...

The British Library has a rich collection of Persian manuscripts, including finely illustrated and decorated manuscripts of the Iranian national epic, the Shahnamah of Ferdowsi, but also including a ...

Stories of the hero Rustam and his trusty steed Rakhsh, immortalised by the 10th century poet Firdawsi in his epic poem, the Shahnamah ("Book of kings"), are among the best loved in the whole of ...