With this book we are going to travel to the real and authentic places of One Thousand and One Nights stories, where the origin of the most stories are, where Scheherazade told the stories to Shahryār, we travel to real Persia. We will travel with a time-machine through 5,000 years of ancient Persia to modern Iran. From Tehran to Qom, Isfahan, Maybod, Yazd, Abarkuh, Persepolis, and to Shiraz.
Iran historically known as Persia is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Iranian Medes in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great founded the Achaemenid Empire, which stretched from Eastern Europe to the Indus Valley, making it one of the largest empires in history.
A collection of 1001 Tales going back to old Persian Empire of Sassanids era (224–651 AD). The main frame story concerns Shahryār (Persian: شهريار, from Middle Persian šahr-dār, lit. "holder of realm"), whom the narrator calls a "Sasanian king" ruling in "India and China". We will travel to the same places all those stories took place. From Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves to Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp, and the flying carpet.