The Most Important Performing Arts Arisen from \u3cem\u3eShahnameh\u3c/em\u3e of Ferdowsi: \u3cem\u3eShahnameh-khani\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eNaqqali\u3c/em\u3e of \u3cem\u3eShahnameh\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
Shahnameh of Ferdowsi is the Iranian national epic, which reflects the history, cultural values, sense of nationhood, and ancient religions of Persia by the only use of Persian pure words in the age of Arabic influence on the literature and science ...
Jahandideh, Mitra, Khaefi, Shahab
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ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka +7 more
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Sacred activism through seva and khidmat: Contextualising management and organisations in South Asia [PDF]
What if our actions were imbued with the sacred? What if activism in organisations evokes better local society and responsible global community?
Abbasi +28 more
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The soul of the soil: Unearthing a Nation's eco‐empathy through 1200 years of Persian poetry
Abstract Cultivating a profound sense of connection with the natural world, conceptualized as eco‐empathy, is increasingly recognized as a vital precursor to effective environmental stewardship. While scientific data frame ecological crises, literary traditions offer a unique archive for tracing the history of this empathetic bond. This study positions
Isa Esfandiarpour‐Boroujeni +7 more
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Pictorial and Illustrated history of the Sassanian Era (An Analysis of "Ketab Al Sovar" or"BaniSasan's Soorat-ul- Molouk) [PDF]
An investigation on Iranian earlyIslamic historiography sources indicates that historiography in ancient Persia had a prominent positionas it remarkably achieved incredible and unique initiatives in its own kind on that particular era.
Rohallah Bahrami
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Retrospective analysis of tax systems in the Ancient East
The article analyzes the system of taxation and fiscal arrangements in the countries of the Ancient East (Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, India and China in the period from 3000 of the third Millennium BC to the beginning ad the analogies with the individual ...
S. A. Shapiro, M. G. Piloyan
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Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA) [PDF]
HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) employs the latest digital technology to develop an innovative methodology to the study of spatial data in Herodotus' Histories.
Barker, Elton +3 more
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The “Great Wall of Gorgan,” also, erroneously, known as “Alexander's Wall,” runs from the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea for at least 195 km eastward, into the Elburz ...
Sauer, Eberhard
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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