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The Climatic Resilience of the Sasanian Empire. [PDF]
Hum Ecol Interdiscip JJacobson MJ, Gascoigne AL, Fleitmann D.
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A complete mitochondrial genome of a Roman-era Plasmodium falciparum
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The Achaemenid and post-Achaemenid ceramics of Qaleh Kali, Iran
, 2014 The archaeology of Achaemenid (c. 550 – 330 BCE) Iran has, until quite recently, been dominated by the excavations of the royal capitals: Persepolis, Pasargadae and Susa. While these sites provide invaluable information regarding aspects of Achaemenid culture, particularly monumental (palatial) architecture and sculpture, there are comparatively few ...
McRae, Iona Katherine
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Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire [PDF]
, 2013 This chapter is an introduction to two of the major aspects of the study of Achaemenid Persian art, namely its definition, and the analysis of quotations of other artistic traditions. Achaemenid art is best defined as consisting of two categories of material. One is the art of the empire, i.e. art produced in furtherance of imperial goals.
Henry Colburn
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, 2021 The first Persian Empire, created and maintained by the Great Kings of the Achaemenid dynasty, was a global empire of vast proportions. Before the conquests of Alexander of Macedon, the Achaemenid empire was the largest empire the world had ever seen ...
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Satrapal Sardis: Achaemenid Bowls in an Achaemenid Capital
American Journal of Archaeology, 1999Sardis, capital of Lydia and seat of the Mermnad dynasty, was made a regional capital of the Achaemenid Persian empire after Lydia was conquered by the expanding empire. Guided by Herodotos, most people have thought that the Lydian era was the period of greatest interest in the history of Sardis.
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Religion Compass, 2014
Abstract “Achaemenid religion” was the religion of the rulers of Iran in the second half of the first millennium BCE and the local form of Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of the Iranians. The earliest form of Zoroastrianism is known from the Avesta, their sacred texts, which probably originated in the last half of the second and ...
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Abstract “Achaemenid religion” was the religion of the rulers of Iran in the second half of the first millennium BCE and the local form of Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of the Iranians. The earliest form of Zoroastrianism is known from the Avesta, their sacred texts, which probably originated in the last half of the second and ...
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“Achaemenid Peace”: A Historiographical Construct and Achaemenid Imperial Ideology
ISTORIYA, 2023The article deals with the historiographical construct of the “Achaemenid Peace”, referred to by modern researchers as Pax Achaemenica (alternative designation — Pax Achaemenidica) and Pax Persica (alternative designation — Pax Persiana) by analogy with Pax Romana and Pax Augusta.
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2005
Abstract Panhellenists delighted to sneer at Persia and Persians, especially at their military performance. Isocrates above all argued that whether Persia was strong or weak the Greeks should unite in attacking it but that in fact Persia would be easily overcome (cf. 4. 139–57). This was not, he conceded (4. 138, 5.
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Abstract Panhellenists delighted to sneer at Persia and Persians, especially at their military performance. Isocrates above all argued that whether Persia was strong or weak the Greeks should unite in attacking it but that in fact Persia would be easily overcome (cf. 4. 139–57). This was not, he conceded (4. 138, 5.
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