The exhibition of 200 items from the Ransom Center’s diverse collections introduces the unique cultural phenomenon of the “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, which is a gnostic and mystical collection of ...

TEHRAN -- A two-day ceremony in commemoration of the 12th century Iranian poet, mathematician, and astronomer Hakim Omar Khayyam was held in Doha, Qatar from March 15 to 16. Several professors, ...

Khayyam was a Persian astronomer and writer renowned in Iran as a scientist, while known in other places as a writer.

In 1909, two Londoners were commissioned to create a book that would become one of the world’s most bedazzling. Joobin Bekhrad reveals how it ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic.

TEHRAN, Mar. 18 (MNA) -- A two-day ceremony in commemoration of the 12th century Iranian poet, mathematician, and astronomer Hakim Omar Khayyam was held in Doha, Qatar from March 15 to 16.

Omar Khayyam lived during a medieval golden age of science and learning in the East. He was among a group of pioneering scientists who were influenced by ideas from ancient Greece, India and China.

Omar Khayyam, a celebrated Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet, is being remembered with a Google Doodle on his 971st birthday. Born in the town of Nishapur in what is now Iran ...

Who was Omar Khayyam? Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. He was born in 1048 in Nishapur, northeastern Iran, and died in 1131 in his birth place.

The Omar Khayyam Show Ep. 1/1 - BBC Radio 4 Extra pays tribute to the remarkable talent of Charles Chilton, who died on 2 January 2013 at the age of 95.

Omar Khayyam, boozy nihilist *I am now off my week-long jaunt on a Croatian literary yacht, but I'm still a little mind-blown at the spectacle of authors reading poetry to the public off a boat.