The Louvre stages Tehran exhibition

The Louvre on Monday opened a show in Tehran billed as the first large-scale exhibition by a major Western museum in the country. The exhibition at Iran’s national museum, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary, features 50 artworks, including a 2,400-year-old Egyptian sphinx, a bust of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, Iranian artefacts and drawings by western artists including Rembrandt and Delacroix. Tehran Times/ Mehdi Sepahvand