In its day the collapsed, massive rock-cut tomb known as the Broken Lion Tomb, or Yılan Taş, located in the Köhnüş Valley north of Afyon, would have been one of the most impressive tomb monuments in Asia Minor. Now lying in a pile of confused blocks that
Draycott, Catherine M.
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The Diadem in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods
The article is a review of the book Das Diadem der hellenistischen Herrscher, Bonn 2012, being a reference framework for a scrutiny of issues related to the origins of the royal diadem of post-Achaemenid (Hellenistic) kings.
Olbrycht, Marek Jan
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Athens and the achaemenid persian empire in 508/7 BC: Prologue to the conflict [PDF]
© 2015, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. All rights reserved. The paper considers the beginning of the relations between Athens and the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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Genomic palaeoparasitology traced the occurrence of Taenia asiatica in ancient Iran (Sassanid Empire, 2th cent. CE-6th cent. CE). [PDF]
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The contribution provides a very detailed and comprehensive illustration of Persian funerary customs during the Achaemenid period, based both on the written sources and on the archaeological and architectural ...
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Common traits on seals and coins of the Achaemenid period in an Anatolian context
Kaptan Deniz. Common traits on seals and coins of the Achaemenid period in an Anatolian context. In: Mécanismes et innovations monétaires dans l’Anatolie achéménide. Numismatique et Histoire. Actes de la Table Ronde d’Istanbul, 22-23 mai 1997. Istanbul :
Kaptan, Deniz
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Persepolis in the Post-Achaemenid Period: some Reflections on the Origins of Estakhr
The debated question concerning the foundation of Estakhr, the large Sasanian and Early Islamic town, is reconsidered on the basis of a thorough review of the existing textual and archaeological evidence, according to which there is no proof of a ...
CALLIERI, PIERFRANCESCO
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Persian Religion in the Achaemenid Period - La religion perse à l’époque achéménide
Including twelve English, French, and German papers originally presented at a colloquium convened by Jean Kellens at the Collège de France (2013), this volume addresses a range of issues relating to Persian religion at the time of the Achaemenid Empire ...
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Restoration of fragmentary Babylonian texts using recurrent neural networks. [PDF]
Fetaya E, Lifshitz Y, Aaron E, Gordin S.
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A remote sensing-based survey of archaeological/heritage sites near Kandahar, Afghanistan through publicly available satellite imagery. [PDF]
Karaucak M, Steiniger D, Boroffka N.
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