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Timber in an archaeological context can be used to establish chronologies, to understand the history of architecture and to reconstruct cultural landscapes and natural vegetation in the past.
M. Djamali +4 more
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CT anatomy of cervical vertebrae of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). [PDF]
This study aimed to investigate a standard morphologic and morphometric description of the elephant cervical spine. For this study, the cervical vertebrae of the Asian elephant, cattle and horse were examined. In this study, the structure of the cervical vertebrae of the Asian elephant was examined, and certain features were observed.
Zehtabvar O +6 more
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The Bones of Khosrow: The Sacred Topography of Ctesiphon
This essay discusses the importance of Ctesiphon in the historical and literary tradition of Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Iran.
Touraj Daryaee
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A Late Sasanian Coin Hoard from Orumiyeh [PDF]
The coinage of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) is not only the most important primary source for its monetary and economic history, but also of greatest relevance for its history and art history.Coin hoards are of pivotal importance for studying ...
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh, Nikolaus Schindel
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Field of the Administrative Geography of the Sasanian Empire on the Auspicious Occasion of the Publication of La Géographie Administrative de l’Émpire Sassanide. Les Témoignages Épigraphiques en Moyen-Perse [PDF]
The political and administrative structures of the Sasanian Empire have been the focus of numerous research. For the rather recent developments of the subject, though, Rika Gyselen’s studies have been crucial.
Hossein Habibi
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Khosrow II (r. 590–628 CE) was the last great Sasanian king who took the throne with the help of the Romans and broke with dynastic religious preferences as he became married to a Christian empress.
Mahdi Motamedmanesh, Samira Royan
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Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Abstract This article contributes to the internationalization of survey methodology by discussing a case from a totalitarian state, the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2020, GAMAAN (The Group for Measuring and Analyzing Attitudes in Iran) conducted an online survey on religion.
Michael Stausberg +2 more
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Towards a Typology of Contact‐Induced Change: Questions, Problems and the Path Ahead
Abstract The fields of linguistic typology, contact linguistics and historical linguistics frequently interact with one another and each draws on the insights gained in the others. To date, however, there is no effective and systematic cooperation between these subdisciplines, no database comparing the typological distribution of features with common ...
Robin Meyer
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An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman
Abstract Antique trade amphorae illuminate a little understood but important find category for Arabia, still in the twilight of publication. Most of the find data lie buried in unpublished work regarding recent excavations at ʿAqaba/Ayla. Recent research has verified mineralogically the origin of these documents and their dating.
Paul A. Yule
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