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Important Coins from the Collection of Klaus Grigo
KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies, 2023This article presents selected coins from the collection of Klaus Grigo from Bochum. Mr. Grigo’s enthusiasm for ancient numismatics was sparked when he obtained his first Roman coins, found during the drought of the Moselle in 1959.
Julian Wünsch
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Linguoconceptual Analysis of Deceit in Herodotus’ Histories
The GLOCAL in Mediterranean and Europe 2022, 2023This research has been conducted in line with the long historical and cultural controversy over the ethnic and national identity of western and eastern civilisations and the ethno-specific perception of falsehood in ancient peoples mentioned in The ...
Anna Polishchuk
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Achaemenid Building Technology
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH), 2022Although critics in the late twentieth century refuted the tendency of early Western scholars to regard Achaemenid architecture as merely eclectic and thus lacking in originality, these old assumptions still influence the study of Achaemenid material ...
M. Motamedmanesh
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2021
Abstract The Achaemenid Persian Empire was history’s first hyperpower, ruling much of the known earth from the reign of Cyrus the Great in the mid-sixth century to the defeat of Darius III by Alexander of Macedon in 331 bce. The Achaemenid Empire’s evident debt to its predecessors in Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia may be contrasted with a ...
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Abstract The Achaemenid Persian Empire was history’s first hyperpower, ruling much of the known earth from the reign of Cyrus the Great in the mid-sixth century to the defeat of Darius III by Alexander of Macedon in 331 bce. The Achaemenid Empire’s evident debt to its predecessors in Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia may be contrasted with a ...
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2009
Abstract The Achaemenid (Persian) Empire was the largest of all ancient Near Eastern “world empires,” spanning from Egypt to Central Asia and the Indus region. Its formation began after 550 B.C.E. when the petty king Cyrus of Anshan/Fars in southwestern Iran and his son Cambyses conquered the mighty Medes and the empires of Lydia ...
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Abstract The Achaemenid (Persian) Empire was the largest of all ancient Near Eastern “world empires,” spanning from Egypt to Central Asia and the Indus region. Its formation began after 550 B.C.E. when the petty king Cyrus of Anshan/Fars in southwestern Iran and his son Cambyses conquered the mighty Medes and the empires of Lydia ...
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The Inscriptions of the Achaemenids
A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2021A. Rossi
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ACTIVATING THE ACHAEMENID LANDSCAPE:
2019In its day the collapsed, massive rock-cut tomb known as the Broken Lion Tomb, or Yılan Taş, located in the Köhnüş Valley north of Afyon, would have been one of the most impressive tomb monuments in Asia Minor. Now lying in a pile of confused blocks that sheared off the edge of the cliff face into which it was carved, its original form is hard to ...
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The Achaemenids and the Avesta
A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2021J. Kellens
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The Return of the Ten Thousand
Iran and the CaucasusMany Greek historians and their Western successors viewed the Achaemenid decline as beginning with Xerxes’ invasion of Greece. The return of Cyrus the Younger’s Greek mercenaries after the Battle of Cunaxa was seen as a sign of Persian weakness ...
Amin Babadi, Morteza Arabzadeh Sarbanani
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, 2018
The product of a decade of research, The Iranian Expanse is a study of the natural and built environments of power in Persia and the ancient Iranian world from the consolidation of the Achaemenid Empire in the sixth century BCE to the fall of the ...
M. Canepa
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The product of a decade of research, The Iranian Expanse is a study of the natural and built environments of power in Persia and the ancient Iranian world from the consolidation of the Achaemenid Empire in the sixth century BCE to the fall of the ...
M. Canepa
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