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Who Are Herodotus\u27 Persians? [PDF]

, 2009
In analyzing how Herodotus\u27 descriptions of foreign societies reflect Greek assumptions and prejudices, we have sometimes failed to recognize the extent to which he reports persuasive and historically valid information.
Munson, Rosaria Vignolo
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Greek Commodities in Phoenicia: An Interdisciplinary Study of Imported Amphorae From Tell el‐Burak (Lebanon)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 395-408, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines transport amphorae of Greek/Aegean types from the 7th–4th c. BCE imported to the Phoenician coastal settlement of Tell el‐Burak, Lebanon. We present a selection of 58 pieces analyzed by typological, chemical (NAA), and petrographic approaches.
Maximilian Rönnberg, Marcel Frenken, Johannes H. Sterba, Silvia Amicone   +3 more
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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 421-433, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori, Ileana De Giuseppe, Fabrizio Frontalini, Luca Pellegrino, Richard W. Jordan, Pierfrancesco Callieri, Emad Matin, Alireza Askari Chaverdi, Hamid Fadaei, Valeria Mengacci, Fulvio Fantino   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Fire Cult During the Achaemenid Period

Anadolu Araştırmaları
This study examines the sacredness of fire, temple structures, cult, and the relationship between fire temples and the cult of Anāhitā during the Achaemenid Kingdom period.
Elif Hatice İlkkurşun
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Studying the Motifs of Iranian Thrones in Ancient Era and Their Evolution [PDF]

نگره, 2020
In Iran, The beginning of the construction of thrones, stools and similar devices coincided with the beginning of urbanization in the sixth millennium BC.
seyedeh motahareh mousavi, Hassan Ali Pourmand, Leila Karimi Fard   +2 more
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An Archaeometallurgical Investigation on Some Archaeological Metal Finds From the Sasanian Site of Jahāngir, Western Iran

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S1, Page S103-S115, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Twelve metal artifacts from recent excavations at the Sasanian archaeological site of Jahāngir in western Iran have been analyzed. These items include both decorative and utilitarian artifacts. The samples were examined using micro‐X‐ray fluorescence (μ‐XRF), scanning electron microscopy with energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy (SEM‐EDS), and
Omid Oudbashi, Leila Khosravi, Morteza Habibzadeh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Hypothesis of the Arsacids’ Descent from the Achaemenids: Myth or Reality?

Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
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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Heroisation or divinisation of men? Some remarks on the Greek interpretation of the ancient Iranian cults of the frauuaši

Mythos
The aim of this article is to reappraise the features of the ancient Iranian cults for men to highlight the main differences with the Greek ones. For instance, authors such as Herodotus or Theopompus, gave interesting insights in the liturgies and the ...
Lorenzo Paoletti
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Levantine Hacksilber and the flow of silver in early Mediterranean commerce

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 6, Page 1547-1564, December 2025.
Abstract This study presents a comprehensive approach to provenancing ancient silver artefacts, introducing a novel algorithm to correct for mass‐dependent isotope fractionation. Applied to a Pb isotope database of 281 Hacksilber samples from southern Levantine hoards (1700–600 BCE) and compared with approximately 7000 galena ores from Spain to Iran ...
Francis Albarede, Gillan Davis, Haim Gitler, Janne Blichert‐Toft, Liesel Gentelli   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A city and its landscape across time: Samarkand in the ancient Sogdiana (Uzbekistan) [PDF]

, 2017
Located in the heartland of Central Asia, Samarkand has always been an economic, cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious hub along the ancient Silk Road.
Mantellini, S.
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