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Calendars of Ancient Iran

open access: yesBulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 1968
There are three calendars of ancient Iran: the Old Avestan, Young Avestan and Old Persian calendars.Gathic people were aware of the lunar year as well as the solar and settled five important turns of season on the ecliptic while they made them adjust the solar vague year.
openaire   +2 more sources

“Nature”, the Manifestation of Sacred Place in Persian Painting Reflection of the Iranian Archetypes of "Land" and "Mountain" in Persian Painting With the Help of Mircea Eliade's Views [PDF]

open access: yesنگره, 2018
Landscape painting in Iran, is part of the narrative and literary context, but it has a particularly influential and distinctive look, which takes a particular look at nature and has a symbolic aspect. In one general principle of Persian painting, spring
Maliheh Imaneian Najafabadi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
(Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
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Eye makeup in Northwestern Iran at the time of the Assyrian Empire: a new kohl recipe based on manganese and graphite from Kani Koter (Iron Age III)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Kohl was ubiquitous in ancient Egypt and the Middle East, and routinely included among the toiletries deposited in burials. For Egypt, kohl recipes are increasingly well‐studied and known to use a range of inorganic and organic ingredients. Although these are often lead‐based, manganese‐ and silicon‐rich compounds are also attested.
Silvia Amicone   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Power, Law and Blood: Sources of Patriarchy in the Middle East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This unpublished article was kindly provided to BU's institutional repository for deposit by the ...
Lindholm, Charles
core   +1 more source

Sourcing carnelian beads from the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kish, Iraq, 2450–2200 BCE: Stylistic, technological and geochemical approaches

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Civilization is studied through the analysis of Early Dynastic III Period (2600–2350 BCE) carnelian beads from the site of Kish, Iraq. Morphological and technological features of the beads are compared with beads from the Indus region.
J. Mark Kenoyer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iranian hospitality: a hidden treasure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
After making many field trips to the Islamic Republic of Iran Kevin O'Gorman reflects on the origins of Islamic and Iranian hospitality before highlighting some of the operational complexities of running the one of the highest hotels in the ...
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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Production of arsenical bronze using speiss on the Elephantine Island (Aswan, Egypt) during the Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age) (c.2000–1650 BCE)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents the first direct evidence of the slags produced during the cementation alloying process of Cu with speiss inside ceramic crucibles, thus representing Cu alloying with As in Middle Kingdom Egypt. The settlement deposits from the Middle Bronze Age were excavated on Elephantine Island, within modern Aswan.
Jiří Kmošek, Martin Odler
wiley   +1 more source

Two New Pahlavi Inscriptions from Fars Province, Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
First edition of two previously unknown Middle Persian inscriptions from the region of Fars in ...
Asadi, Ali, Cereti, Carlo G.
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