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Achaemenid / Early Zoroastrian Influences on Phoenician Cultic Practices During the Persian Period

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies, 2023
:The Achaemenid rule is often perceived by modern scholars as religiously tolerant and nonintrusive, mainly due to the biblical narrative and the Cyrus decree.
Meir Edrey
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"I established kingdom on its place": an idea of law and order in the Achaemenid Empire

Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost, 2023
The article aims to consider the problem of correlating the concept of “law” in the Achaemenid Empire, expressed by the word dāta-, with the ideological concept of “order”, metaphorically denoted by the word gāϑu-, i.e. “place”.
Alina Isakova
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Review of Al-Makīn Ğirğis Ibn al-ʿAmīd: Universal History. The Vulgate Recension, Part 1, Section 1: From Adam to the End of the Achaemenids

JAOS
Al-Makīn Ğirğis Ibn al-ʿAmīd: Universal History. The Vulgate Recension, Part 1, Section 1: From Adam to the End of the Achaemenids. Edited by Martino Diez. Arabic Christianity Texts and Studies, vol. 6.1. Brill, 2024. Pp.
Alastair Hamilton
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Achaemenids (522 BC to 486 BC)

European Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
This research deals with the history of the Achaemenid Empire and studies its impact on the ancient world, as it derived its power from its expansions and influence on the surrounding world.
Sura Hasan Radhi
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“Achaemenid Peace”: A Historiographical Construct and Achaemenid Imperial Ideology

ISTORIYA, 2023
The article deals with the historiographical construct of the “Achaemenid Peace”, referred to by modern researchers as Pax Achaemenica (alternative designation — Pax Achaemenidica) and Pax Persica (alternative designation — Pax Persiana) by analogy with Pax Romana and Pax Augusta.
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Achaemenid Religion

Religion Compass, 2014
Abstract “Achaemenid religion” was the religion of the rulers of Iran in the second half of the first millennium BCE and the local form of Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of the Iranians. The earliest form of Zoroastrianism is known from the Avesta, their sacred texts, which probably originated in the last half of the second and ...
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Satrapal Sardis: Achaemenid Bowls in an Achaemenid Capital

American Journal of Archaeology, 1999
Sardis, capital of Lydia and seat of the Mermnad dynasty, was made a regional capital of the Achaemenid Persian empire after Lydia was conquered by the expanding empire. Guided by Herodotos, most people have thought that the Lydian era was the period of greatest interest in the history of Sardis.
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From Old to New Persian

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018
This chapter looks at the evolution of Persian, the only language to be substantially documented in all three periods of Old, Middle, and New Iranian on account of its close association with political centres over the centuries: Old and Middle Persian ...
M. Maggi, P. Orsatti
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In the Path of Conquest

, 2020
This book offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336–323 from the vantage point of the defeated.
Waldemar Heckel
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Iranian Expanse

, 2018
The product of a decade of research, The Iranian Expanse is a study of the natural and built environments of power in Persia and the ancient Iranian world from the consolidation of the Achaemenid Empire in the sixth century BCE to the fall of the ...
M. Canepa
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