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Journal 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
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Remembering the Achaemenids in the Character of Nehemiah
Journal of Hebrew ScripturesThe portrayal of Nehemiah’s relationship with the Achaemenid Empire shifts significantly across four key Second Temple period texts: Nehemiah, 1 Esdras, 2 Maccabees, and Sirach.
Deirdre N. Fulton
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The Roots of the Parthians Movement [PDF]
پژوهشهای 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
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‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
Nations 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
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Herodotus on Bactria between Achaemenid Mobility and Alexander’s campaign. Some reflections [PDF]
Studia 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
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The Epistemic Challenge to Democratic Resilience: A Late‐Classical Athenian Institutional Solution
Constellations, 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
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The Horse and the Lion in Achaemenid Persia: Representations of a Duality
Arts, 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
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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran
Digest 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
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Prophetic Imagination in the Light of Narratology and Disability Studies in Isaiah 40–48 [PDF]
, 2014 Analyzes Isaiah 40–48 as a single literary work through levels of speakers (frame and subordinate) with implications for its construction of divine potency and ...
simeon chavel
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Archaeological 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
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