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A Survey on Ethnic Foods and Desserts of Mohr City in Fars

Traditional and Integrative Medicine, 2019
Ethnic foods, a distinctive part of a cultural group or nation, have recently attracted scientists' attention because of their potential health benefits.
Parmis Badr, Sedigheh Khademian
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Regional onset of Holocene drying period estimated from sand deposit analyses in Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 1106-1119, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Desertification in North Africa has progressed rapidly over the past 6000 years. The occupation of Egypt by the Achaemenid Persians and Romans occurred even in hyperarid climates. Understanding the process of environmental changes on a regional scale may improve knowledge of how people developed technologies and adapted to the natural ...
Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Kamei
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Paphlagonians

, 2021
People living in the central region of northern Asia Minor (BA 86). Croesus subjugated them (1.28), and, under the Achaemenids, Paphlagonia became a satrapy of the Persian Empire (3.90.2).
Giustina Monti (17163715)
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Les communautés grecques en Babylonie (viie – iiie s. av. J.-C.)

Pallas, 2012
Aux époques néo-assyrienne (728-626 av. J.-C.) et néo-babylonienne (626-539 av. J.-C.), la présence de communautés grecques en Babylonie semble avoir été principalement le résultat de déportations.
Julien Monerie
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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 4, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
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The Frataraka of Persis

Karanos
This article aims to survey the sources on the Frataraka to examine their historical role. Initially, we will provide a concise overview of the academic community's contributions and the status quaestionis, presenting the primary testimonies available ...
Raúl Navas-Moreno
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Achaemenid Empire and Agibi Firm [PDF]

پژوهش های تاریخی, 2013
Documents and tablets from cities located in Mesopotamia acknowledge huge firms which were engaged in different business and economic activities. Firms whose archives draw light on Persian conquest of Mesopotamia, land allocation to Persians, forming ...
AA Mirzayi
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Alexander III’s Empire: Macedonian, Achaemenid or Oecumenic Greek? [PDF]

Studia Hercynia, 2021
In less than twelve years (334–323 BC) Alexander the Great built a vast empire stretching from Macedon in the West to Ancient India in the East. Alexander united the then known world and its different populations under a single political institution, but
Guendalina D.M. Taietti
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The Architecture of Large Kurgans of the Scythians and Their Periphery: A Challenge for Magnetometer Prospections in the Eurasian Steppe Belt

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 507-524, July/September 2025.
ABSTRACT The burial mounds of the early Iron Age, which we will refer to below as kurgans, from the nomadic equestrian warriors of Eurasia, form a very complex group of archaeological monuments. Archaeological excavations in Aržan 2 (Siberia) and Aleksandropol (Ukraine) show that the large burial mounds are complex architectural constructions.
Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Anton Gass
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Male homoerotic practices in Achaemenid Persia: an overview

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental
Descriptions of Ancient Persian male homoeroticism come mainly from Classical sources, which, however, seem to present divergent testimonies regarding this practice.
Matheus Treuk Medeiros de Araujo
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