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The convergence and innovation of Sasanian Persian architectural art in medieval Chinese architecture

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
The Sasanian Empire (226–651 CE) developed a distinct architectural system that integrated geometric iwans, Zoroastrian cosmic symbolism, and intricate stucco reliefs, embodying its imperial and religious ideology.
Qing Yang
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The Political and Religious Condition of Iran at Advent of Islam [PDF]

تاریخ اسلام, 2002
Why and how the religion of Islam spread relatively quickly in Iran in the early Muslim centuries is among topics that still attracts scholars in the field of history.
Hossein Moftakhari
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Jitse H.F. Dijkstra and Greg Fisher, eds, Inside and Out. Interactions between Rome and the Peoples on the Arabian and Egyptian Frontiers in Late Antiquity

Aethiopica, 2016
Review
Alessandro Bausi
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Arab Conquests. View from Egypt

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2023
The reasons for the success of the Arab conquests present a complex problem. It is difficult to explain the victories of the Arab-Muslim troops, which had much less military-demographic potential than neighboring Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium)
Anton Voytenko
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Forgetting cane grasses: Switching temporal focus to reveal mosaics of Saccharum diversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 590-602, May 2025.
Sugarcane (Saccharum cvs.) is one of the most important cash crops globally. Related varieties and species of cane grasses of the genus Saccharum are also important subsistence crops in the Indo‐Pacific region. Despite the significance of these crops globally and recent advances in genetic characterisation, the histories and geographies of ...
Tim Denham
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Evidence of glass bead‐making in the early Islamic Iberian Peninsula

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 364-379, April 2025.
Abstract Glass beads from two Islamic archaeological sites in the Tagus valley in central Spain were selected and analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS), and a subset of samples (n = 6) was analysed for Pb isotopes by multicollector thermal ionization mass spectrometry (MC‐TIMS).
Cristina Boschetti, Jorge de Juan Ares, Sophie Gilotte, Catherine Guerrot, Nadine Schibille   +4 more
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Cotton and Wool: Textile Economy in the Serakhs Oasis during the Late Sasanian Period, the Case of Spindle Whorls from Gurukly Depe (Turkmenistan)

Ethnobiology Letters, 2016
Gurukly Depe is an archaeological site located in the Serakhs oasis in southeast Turkmenistan, excavated since 2010 by the Polish-Turkmen archaeological mission directed by Professor Barbara Kaim from the University of Warsaw.
Dominika Maja Kossowska-Janik
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Sasanian Sealstones [PDF]

, 1994
Sasanian Sealstones is a B.A. thesis completed in 1994 by Catherine Bullock (Demos), who graduated from Near Eastern Studies (now MELC). The thesis was completed under the direction of Professor Guitty Azarpay, as part of a project to catalog and study ...
Bullock, Catherine
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Sasanian Archaeology: Settlements, Environment and Material Culture

, 2023
The Sasanian empire was one of the great powers of Late Antiquity, and for four centuries ruled the vast region stretching from Syria and the Caucasus to Central Asia.
Simpson, St John
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Delving into the composition of the Persian delegation during the 298 Roman-Persian negotiations

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The Peace of 298, also known as the First Peace of Nisibis, was a peace treaty signed by the Roman and Sasanian empires. The terms of the treaty are known from a 6th-century CE summary of its content by Byzantine historian Peter the Patrician.
Katarzyna Maksymiuk
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