Birth in Nishapur
· Nishapur, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication · file Omar Khayyam was born in Nishapur, the major Khorasan city that remained central to his life and intellectual identity. The article states that modern scholars derived the exact birth date, 18 May 1048, from Bayhaqi's horoscope report.
