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403, 2013

New Course: Forgotten Gifts of Persia

Kaveh Farrokh, an instructor at the University of British Columbia's Continuing Studies Division is offering a new course

2202, 2012

The Expedition of Darius the Great

Below is an article by the late Professor Shapour Shahbazi on the expedition of Darius the Great into

Linear Elamite Deciphered!

By |August 25th, 2022|Categories: Ancient: Prehistory – 651 A.D., Anthropology, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Elam, Heritage, Iron Age, News|

The article "Linear Elamite Deciphered! Ancient Iranian script finally unlocked" was written by Nathan Steinmeyer for the blog of the Biblical Archaeology Society on August

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Documentary on Sassanian Horse Archers

By |August 18th, 2022|Categories: Ancient: Prehistory – 651 A.D., Hepthalite and Hunnic, Iran and Central Asia, Iran and Europe, Iran and the Persian Gulf, Kushan, Medieval: 652 A.D. – 1500 A.D., Parthian, Sassanian Military History, Sassanians, Scythian, Tocharian, Zoroastrianism|

The below video is a documentary about Sassanian horse archers made by the Invicta venue. The contents of the video are well-researched and it is

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Correcting Misconceptions from a Smithsonian Magazine Article on Linear Elamite Research

By |August 12th, 2022|Categories: Ancient: Prehistory – 651 A.D., Anthropology, Archaeology, Education, Elam, Heritage, Journal Articles, Linguistics, Literature, News, Pre-Achaemenid|

Below is a scholarly response published in Academia.edu entitled "The Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing and a Curious Way of Doing Journalism: A Rejoinder to

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Unknown Iranian Famine of World War Two

By |July 31st, 2022|Categories: Human Rights, Military History 1900-Present, Modern: 1501 A.D. - Present, Pahlavi|

Despite the vast focus of researchers on  multiple facets of the history of World War Two, there remains a number of important events essentially ignored

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Ancient Birthplace of Musical Instruments

By |July 19th, 2022|Categories: Achaemenids, Ancient: Prehistory – 651 A.D., Anthropology, Archaeology, Creative, Culture, Elam, Heritage, Musical Arts, Parthian, Persianate, Pre-Achaemenid, Sassanians|

The article "A birthplace of musical instruments" was posted in the Tehran Times on January 8, 2022. Kindly note excepting one image, all other accompanying

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Stronach and Gopnik: Pasargadae

By |July 16th, 2022|Categories: Achaemenids, Ancient: Prehistory – 651 A.D., Archaeology, Architecture, Cyrus the Great, Elam, Engineering, Environment & Wildlife, Greece-Persia Links, Heritage, Iran and Europe, UNESCO|

This article by David Stronach and Hilary Gopnik first appeared in the Encyclopedia Iranica on July 20, 2009. Kindly note that thirteen images and accompanying

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