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  Greeks and Parthians in Mesopotomia

  Wolfram Grajetzki has participated in excavations in Egypt and Pakistan and has taught Egyptology at Humboldt University, Berlin. Palmyra Gate in the defensive walls of Doura Europos Doura Europos has served as a military colony, a fortress and a caravan city, and still offers great views over the Euphrates river to the present-day visitor. The coming of the Parthians changed Mesopotamia even less than the (...)
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  Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph

  At the same time Alexander’s views of empire are investigated, his attitude to his subjects, and the development of his concepts of personal divinity and universal monarchy. Analogies are thus drawn with the Spanish conquest of Mexico, which has a comparable historiographical tradition and parallels many of Alexander’s dealings with his subjects. Although of concern to the specialist, this book is equally directed (...)
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  فردوسی و آرامگاهش

  کوشش ارزنده‌ای که آرمانی بنيادين دارد. آرمان و هدفِ به راه خردگرائی رهنمون شدن مردمان کشور و یا کشورهای سرزمینهای پهناور ایران، که بنا به خواست دشمن، زبان مادریشان داشت به فراموشی سپرده می شد. مردمان پشتۀ ايران، از هر تيره و تباری، زبان پارسی را چون زبانی ملی و همگانی برگزیده بودند و به ياری آن به آسانی می توانستند از تاريکی چند سده‌ای بيرون بيايند و به گلستان فرهنگی خود از دريچۀ شاهکاری نوين که همان شاهنامۀ فردوسی باشد، به نيکی بنگرند و بار برگيرند. پی بردن به (...)
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  From Scythia to Camelot

  Given our intimate familiarity with this hoary tale, it is remarkable how mistaken is our understanding of its origins. Common wisdom considers the legend of King Arthur to be English to the core, while scholarly tomes analyze its presumed Celtic roots. To the average person, it would seem preposterous to assert that the Arthurian cycle is fundamentally Scythian. In the first place, only the tiniest fraction of (...)
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  The Fire Temple of Baku

  Eternal fire The History of Atashgah is rooted in the time of the Sassanid’s, when Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion in this region. But in 643 there was the turning point: the territory of the Caucasus was invaded by the army of the Arab Caliphate, which brought Islam to this region. Fire temples fell into decay. Some Zoroastrians, who did not accept Islam, eventually had to go to India, where the (...)
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  Save Bahrot Caves

  Entry to the main Cave Click to enlarge (© farzanmazda) Pottery, glass ware and coins dating back to the Sassanian period in Iran (the last Zoroastrian dynasty) have been found. It proves the thesis of historians that the Iranian Zoroastrians had close trading connections with the Gujarat coast, and that Sanjan was a well known and prosperous port with whom the Iranians had close connections. This was the (...)
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  The two eyes of the Earth

  This shared ideal, while often generating conflict during the four centuries of the empires’ coexistence (224-642), also drove exchange, especially the means and methods Roman and Persian sovereigns used to project their notions of universal rule: elaborate systems of ritual and their cultures’ visual, architectural, and urban environments. The Roman-Persian Wars have been characterized as “futile” and both too (...)
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  تولد و استقلال دانشگاه تهران فرخنده باد

  نقطۀ عطفِ تاریخِ عقب‌ماندگی به تاریخِ نوینِ ایران، روز سوّم اسفند ماه ۱۲۹۹ خورشیدی است که سرآغاز انقراض حکومت قبیله‌ای و ملوک‌الطوایفی قارجاریه و تولد سلسلۀ مدرن پهلوی در ایران را سبب شد. از این روز و تاریخ است که کشور ایران تکانی از رخوت و از خودبیگانگی که همۀ جان و جهان و خردش را فرا گرفته بود، به خود می دهد و پای در جادۀ ترقی و پیشرفت می گذارد. دیوارهای کهنه و پوسیده را فرو می ریزد و جای آن، شالوده‌های بنای نوین را در عرصه‌های گوناگون اجتماعی پایه‌گذاری می کند. (...)
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  Jinnah was responsible for the killings

  Mohammad-Ali Jinnah On the front page of the Time Magazine. History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as a farce. We are now in the midst of the tragedy, but soon shall be overtaken by farce. But the men who are going to be hit have no idea who are behind the show and are pulling the strings. History, as I said, repeats itself. When Shivaji Maharaj — he was not a Chhatrapati yet; that came later — (...)
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  Scythes, Sarmates et Slaves

  Au XIXe siècle, les progrès des sciences ont ruiné ces mythes d’origine, en tout cas sous leur forme la plus naïve : les anciens nomades avaient parlé des langues iraniennes et ne pouvaient être les ancêtres principaux des Slaves historiques. Mais en même temps, linguistes et archéologues commençaient à mettre en lumière des liens bien réels, intimes et durables, entre les peuples scythiques et les ancêtres des Slaves. De ces (...)

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