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Iran or Persia : what's in a name, the decline and fall of a tourism industry? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The future of tourism in Iran depends on the tenor of the government, whether it be Islamic traditionalist or Islamic liberalist. In Iran religion and politics are inescapably intertwined and inseparable, with the priority of religion over politics. This
Baum, T.G., O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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Achaemenid court eunuchs in their Near Eastern context: images in the longue durée

open access: yesAnais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, 2023
This study aims to compare some images of beardless attendants in monumental reliefs from the Achaemenid (c. 550-330 BCE) and Neo-Assyrian (c. 911-612 BCE) empires, which we consider relevant sources for the study of court eunuchs and cultural ...
Matheus Treuk Medeiros de Araujo
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Deciphering Arachosian Tribute at Persepolis: Orthopraxy and Regulated Gifts in the Achaemenid Empire

open access: yesReligions
Inscribed trays, plates, mortars, and pestles made of beautiful green chert bearing formulaic administrative textual formulae were found during excavations at the Persepolis Treasury in the 1930s.
Gad Barnea
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New Investigations in the Environment, History and Archaeology of the Iraqi Hilly Flanks: Shahrizor Survey Project 2009-2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Recent palaeoenvironmental, historical, and archaeological investigations, primarily consisting of site reconnaissance, in the Shahrizor region within the province of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan are bringing to light new information on the region’s ...
Adams   +130 more
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Hazarapatiš in the Achaemenid Empire: A Commander or Usher?

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
This article explores the official duties of the hazarapat (hazarapatiš) at the court of the Achaemenid kings and defines the relationship between the terms chiliarch (χιλíαρχος) and isangeleus (εἰσαγγελεύς), both used for this Persian title, in the ...
E. S. Onischenko
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Quantitative dynamics of human empires [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Quantitative modeling of social systems shows a large component of automatic drives in the behavior of individual humans and human society. Studies of the formation and breakdown of twenty diverse empires operating over almost three thousand years ...
Ausubel, J.H., Marchetti, C.
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La razón de Estado en la política religiosa de los reyes Aqueménidas: ¿tolerancia o intolerancia religiosa? [PDF]

open access: yes
Two words would summarize what characterized the religious policy during the two centuries of the Achaemenid Empire: tolerance and party utilization.
Campos Méndez, Israel
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Müslüman İran'da zerdüştî kimliğinin inşası [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In the article I would like to pay attention to the internal diversity of so-called Muslim world. In my research I deal with the Zoroastrian religious minority in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Niechciał, Paulina
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The legal system of the Achaemenid Empire in the biblical tradition

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
This article examines the ways the legal system of the Achaemenid Empire is represented in the biblical tradition, focusing on the Books of Ezra and Esther, which provide the most important information about the Achaemenid law.
E. V. Rung
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Uus-babüloonia kroonika ja vana-pärsiakeelne raidkiri Artaxerxes III Ochose valitsemisajast [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2011
The main aim of the current short article is not only to give an overview of some facts regarding the biography of the last important Old Persian king Artaxerxes III Ochos (359–338 BC), who re-established a weakened Achaemenid Empire, but also to give an
Vladimir Sazonov
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