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Empires of the Silk Road

October 5th, 2024|Comments Off on Empires of the Silk Road

Readers are introduced to Professor Christopher I. Beckwith's text: "Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to

Parsa (Persepolis)

By |October 7th, 2024|Categories: Achaemenid Military History, Achaemenids, Ancient: Prehistory – 651 A.D., Archaeology, Architecture, Cultural and Endangered Sites, Heritage, UNESCO|

The article below is by Professor David Stronach and Kim Codella regarding Persepolis and was first posted on-line in 1997 by the CAIS (Circle of Ancient

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Legacy of Cyrus the Great’s Cylinder

By |October 6th, 2024|Categories: Cyrus the Great, Jews and Iran, People of Iran and Origins, Zoroastrianism|

The video below is of Neil Macgregor (Director of the British Museum 2002-2015) speaking about Cyrus the Great (r. 559-530 BCE) and the Cyrus Cylinder

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Empires of the Silk Road

By |October 5th, 2024|Categories: Achaemenids, Aghanistan, Book Review, China, Courses and Curricula, Culinary Arts, Europa and Eire-An (Ancient Iran/Persia), Greece-Persia Links, Heritage, India and Asia, Iran, Iran and Central Asia, Medicine, Mythology and Nowruz, News, Parthian, People of Iran and Origins, Persian Gulf, Pre-Achaemenid, Science, Scythian, Shahnameh, Technology, Turco-Iranian or Persianate Civilization, Zoroastrianism|

Readers are introduced to Professor Christopher I. Beckwith's text: "Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Asia from the Bronze Age to the

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Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval Article on Achaemenid Cavalry

By |September 26th, 2024|Categories: Achaemenid Military History, Achaemenids, Ancient: Prehistory – 651 A.D., Archaeology, Cyrus the Great, Greece-Persia Links, Iran and Europe, Journal Articles, News|

The prestigious Spanish military journal “Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval” has published an article by Kaveh Farrokh on the cavalry forces of the Achaemenids at

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Documentary Film Production: the UNESCO Sassanian Fortress in Darband

By |September 25th, 2024|Categories: Archaeology, Architecture, Cultural and Endangered Sites, Daghestan, Europa and Eire-An (Ancient Iran/Persia), Heritage, Iran and Caucasia, Military History 1900-Present, News, Sassanian Military History, Sassanians|

Stanford University shall be screening, on October 3, 2024, Pejman Akbarzadeh's documentary film on the Sassanian fortress Darband in Daghestan, which is the largest known

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Bukhara in Pre-Islamic Times

By |September 5th, 2024|Categories: India and Asia, Iran and Central Asia, Turco-Iranian or Persianate Civilization|

The article below by the late Harvard Professor Emeritus Professor Richard N. Nelson Frye (1920-2014) on Bukhara in Pre-Islamic Times was originally posted in the Encyclopedia Iranica.

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