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The delegation of power: Neo-Assyrian bureau seals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Bureau seals are an innovation of the Assyrian administration to cope with the delegation of power that running a world empire demanded. By placing some bureau seals in their historical context we find indications that these seal types were introduced ...
Radner, K
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Imperial systems and local landscapes of Buldan Yayla in Western Anatolia (Türkiye) during the last 4000 years: An integrated palynological, historical, and archaeological approach

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1285-1304, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates long‐term impacts of empires on local socio‐ecosystems in western Anatolia (modern western Türkiye) over the past four millennia. We focus on Buldan Yayla Lake, located in a small mountain basin north of the Büyük Menderes (Great Meander) River valley.
Sabina Fiołna   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Roots of the Parthians Movement [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2012
With the fall of the Achaemenid Empire was conquered by Alexander the Macedonian East world over the West world.Alexander's Hellenistic empire in a dream world before the truth has died and his inheritance was divided among his commanders.
عظیم شه بخش   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 907-917, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing posts, reposts and comments made on X after the Hamas‐led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 using the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, the paper ...
Ladan Rahbari
wiley   +1 more source

Herodotus on Bactria between Achaemenid Mobility and Alexander’s campaign. Some reflections [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Hercynia, 2021
Thanks to a recent monographic study by Chiara Matarese we are now able to understand more clearly both the reasons and the goals of a phenomenon, that of the so-called ‘deportations’ characteristic of the Achaemenid empire.
Marco Ferrario
doaj  

The Horse and the Lion in Achaemenid Persia: Representations of a Duality

open access: yesArts, 2021
This paper explores the ambiguous Persian Achaemenid attitude towards the horse and the lion. It examines the way these animals appear in imperial official presentations, local artifacts throughout the empire and Greek textual representations.
Eran Almagor
doaj   +1 more source

The Epistemic Challenge to Democratic Resilience: A Late‐Classical Athenian Institutional Solution

open access: yesConstellations, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 394-403, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Democratic erosion is an increasingly worrying phenomenon, affecting not only both young and transitional democracies but also more consolidated ones. A particularly important aspect of this process (in its contemporary incarnation) is that, because of its subtle and incrementalist character, it is difficult to perceive by citizens, who often ...
Alexandru Volacu
wiley   +1 more source

More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran

open access: yesDigest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 4, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
wiley   +1 more source

The Architecture of Large Kurgans of the Scythians and Their Periphery: A Challenge for Magnetometer Prospections in the Eurasian Steppe Belt

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 507-524, July/September 2025.
ABSTRACT The burial mounds of the early Iron Age, which we will refer to below as kurgans, from the nomadic equestrian warriors of Eurasia, form a very complex group of archaeological monuments. Archaeological excavations in Aržan 2 (Siberia) and Aleksandropol (Ukraine) show that the large burial mounds are complex architectural constructions.
Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Anton Gass
wiley   +1 more source

Material Profiling of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals by Raman Spectroscopy

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 228-242, March 2025.
Mesopotamian cylinder seals (fourth ‐ first millennium bce) from the collection of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg were non‐destructively studied by Raman spectroscopy were non‐destructively studied by Raman spectroscopy. The Raman spectral analysis identified the mineral constituents and quantitatively determined the chemical compositions of the
Stylianos Aspiotis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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