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Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them.
Oz Hassan
wiley   +1 more source

The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 1275-1300, November 2026.
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
wiley   +1 more source

ALEXANDER THE GREAT; IN THE REALM OF EVERGETǼS

open access: yes, 2015
Sistan, in the eastern half of Iran, is one of the most important archaeological regions from where archaeological sites belonging to the Bronze Age onwards have recovered in abundance.
Mehrafarin, Reza
core   +1 more source

Sonja Plischke. “Persianism under the early Seleucid Kings? The Royal Title ‘Great King’” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The memory of the Achaemenids seems to have affected the ideological frameworks characterizing the great political entities that alternated in the centuries between what we call Hellenism and the Parthian period. If this memory appears to have been built
Messina, Vito, Vito Messina
core   +1 more source

Greco-Persian wars: View from Persia

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2017
The aim of this paper is to examine some of the evidences, both Old-Persian and Greek ones, which can reflect Persian views on the Greco-Persian wars. The paper is based on the comparative analysis of the Persian epigraphic material and Greek literary ...
E.V. Rung, E.A. Venidiktova
doaj  

Heroisation or divinisation of men? Some remarks on the Greek interpretation of the ancient Iranian cults of the frauuaši

open access: yesMythos
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
doaj   +1 more source

An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 804-810, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

« Religion and Burial Customs », in : J. Curtis & N. Tallis, eds., Forgotten Empire. The world of Ancient Persia. London, The British Museum Press, 2005, pp. 150-180. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A first part of this chapter is devoted to religious issues. Despite the many textual and iconographical remains, several issues on the religion of the Achaemenid kings are still not solved. E.g.
Daems, Aurélie
core   +1 more source

An Achaemenid God in Color

open access: yesHeritage, 2023
A limestone relief fragment with a figure in a winged disk from the fifth-century BCE Hall of 100 Columns at Persepolis in southwestern Iran that entered the Harvard Art Museums’ collections in 1943 preserves significant traces of its original coloration and has played a key role in the rediscovery of polychromy at the Achaemenid Persian capital. After
Susanne Ebbinghaus   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Parthians’ performance in Guarding the borders (Mythological-Historical Marzbānān) [PDF]

open access: yesادبیات پایداری, 2019
In early 3rd century B.C., when a foreign government ruled over the country after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, an Iranian ethnic group from Eastern Iran was rose to power and established an Iranian government.
hamid kavyani pooya
doaj   +1 more source

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