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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The Hypothesis of the Arsacids’ Descent from the Achaemenids: Myth or Reality?
Banber Arevelagitut'yan InstitutiIn 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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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 158-172, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, while a Pre‐Islamic variety of Arabic was their spoken language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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The political, religious and economic position of the Mehrnarseh family in the Sassanid government [PDF]
تحقیقات تاریخ اقتصادی ایران, 2023 At the beginning of the third century AD, the Sasanians arose from the province of Pars, the birthplace of the Achaemenids, and established a government in which the Zoroastrian clergy and Nejadeh families had a special position. In the Sasanian history,
Iraj Rajabi +3 more
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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 122-143, September 2023., 2023 Abstract With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories ...
Ehsan Kashfi
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Dry communication roads in the Achaemenid period [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2016 With the formation of the Achaemenid Empire (559-331 BC) large areas with different peoples and traditions were under the command of Iran. Manage these different areas require a lot of Equipped communication roads to facilitate access to all areas of the
sahmeddin khazaee
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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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Symbological Investigation and Analysis of Fire Motifs in Pre-Islamic Iran: Emphasizing Works of the Median and Achaemenid Periods [PDF]
پیکره, 2022 Problem Definition: By observing the status of fire and fire-place in the reliefs of works left by the kings of the Medes and Achaemenids, it could be understood that fire had a very high and sacred position in Pre-Islamic Iran.
Hoori Davoudi, Zahra Hosseinabadi
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The presocratic philosophical legacy of ancient Greece and its influence on Zoroastrian eschatology [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2022 The Gathas, as Zoroaster's own compositions, contain the oldest eschatological material, describing a picture of the future with a clear vision of the victory of right over wrong.
Sayyed Toufiq Hosseini
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