THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE ARSACIDS’ DESCENT FROM THE ACHAEMENIDS: MYTH OR REALITY? [PDF]
Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2021 In the 40s of the last century, J. Wolski proposed a thesis, still dominant in historiography, arguing that the story of Arrian which reached us thanks to his work “Parthica” that the Arsacid dynasty, the founder of Parthian state, descended from the ...
Arthur Melikyan
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The impact of archaism discourse on Iranian medical historiography from the Achaemenid period [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2021 No ...
Masoud Kasiri
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Despite Iran’s longstanding reputation for sustainable water management, the country currently faces mounting water-related challenges caused by population growth, industrial development, urban sprawl, lifestyle changes, climate change, territorial ...
Masoud Saatsaz, Abolfazl Rezaei
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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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Persian Collections: Center and Periphery at Achaemenid Imperial Capitals
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021 The absence of a true Achaemenid Persian “historiography” necessitates that we look elsewhere to construct Persian ideological interactions with the periphery.
Jennifer Finn
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Comparing maternal genetic variation across two millennia reveals the demographic history of an ancient human population in southwest Turkey. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2016 More than two decades of archaeological research at the site of Sagalassos, in southwest Turkey, resulted in the study of the former urban settlement in all its features.
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Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire [PDF]
, 2013 This chapter is an introduction to two of the major aspects of the study of Achaemenid Persian art, namely its definition, and the analysis of quotations of other artistic traditions. Achaemenid art is best defined as consisting of two categories of material. One is the art of the empire, i.e. art produced in furtherance of imperial goals.
Henry Colburn
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The Prosopography of Cyrus the Younger's Mercenaries: Officers of Recruiter [PDF]
تحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایران, 2023 Cyrus the Younger in his unsuccessful attempt to to get the royal throne and crown from his brother Artaxerxes II, enlisted a great body of mercenaries with help of his friend Greek officers.
Vazir Menbari, Roozbeh Zarrinkoob
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A Critical Review on the Book The Persians by Maria Brosius [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2021 Despite the prominent place of ancient Iranian civilizations in the study of the history of the Ancient Near East, it has been overshadowed by an overwhelmingly hostile press that is embedded in the European tradition originated in Greco-Roman sources ...
Sa’di Saeedyan
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Revision of the sources; critical analysis of Greek narratives of the death of Cyrus II [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2021 Cyrus the Great has been always considered as the founder of Achaemenid Empire. Whereas there is no significant source in his homeland about him and the researches about his life and death can be only found in foreign sources.
Esmaeil Sangari +2 more
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