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Remarks on Nehemiah and the Idea of “Overtaxation” in Persian Yehud

open access: yesVaria História, 2022
This article aims at providing a brief overview of the historiographic writings on Achaemenid taxation, showing how the thesis of overtaxation influenced our understanding of Neh. 5 and Persian Yehud in the 5th century BCE.
Matheus TREUK MEDEIROS DE ARAUJO
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Hopper–Rubbers or Olynthus Mills from Şarhöyük/ Dorylaion: Recent Evidence on Typology and Chronology

open access: yesAnadolu Araştırmaları
Şarhöyük/Dorylaion (Dorylaeum) is one of the largest mounds in central Anatolia and boasts a stratigraphical sequence that spans from the Late Chalcolithic period to the end of the 12th century AD.
Mahmut Bilge Baştürk
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A Critical Study of the Order of the Great Cyrus on the basis of Historical Resources [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2019
:There are many researches and assumptions about the family's dependence and dependence during the first Achaemenid period. In the Oriental historiography, sometimes a legendary and mythic texture, the recognition of the descendants and descendants and ...
Javad Choopanian
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Cyrus Cylinder as a Source for Achaemenid History [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2012
Due to the discontinuity in Iranian Historiography which occurred with Macedonian raids, the things that we know about the Achaemenid history is mainly based on evidence obtained from last two centuries of excavations.
Mehrdad Ghodrat Dizaji
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of Horse Imagery from Median to Achaemenid Eras [PDF]

open access: yesنگره, 2014
The aim of this paper is studying the evolution of horse imagery and recognizing the position of horses, both structurally and conceptually, from Median to Achaemenid eras.
Leila Sharifi, Adham Zargham
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Political Archaeology and the Growth of Nationalism in Historiography of Iran in Early Twenty Century: the Case of Pirniya’s Ancient History [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2015
It is argued that whenever the political situation provides a favourable environment, the archaeological activities have been encouraged to provoke nationalism, and historians in various capacities have used archaeological data and historical records to ...
Mohammad Taghi Imanpour
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