Name: Clyde Hostetter

Country:  

Email:  

Date: Tuesday, 14 June 2005

Comments

I have come across your Web site while looking for possible links between the Sumerian and early Persian religions. The wealth of information is overwhelming! I wish that I had known of your site before. I have read Prof. Basirov's essay, "Evolution of the Zoroastrian Iconography." It was especially helpful. I believe that I have significant evidence, acquired in Saudi Arabia in 1976, which you need to know about. I can send an Acrobat file with photos that will demonstrate why I believe this. Please e-mail the e-mail address that I should use in sending the photos and further information. Clyde Hostetter Professor Emeritus California Polytechnic State University

Name: Ashkan Pur-Ghobadi

Country: UK

Email: ashkan@aol.com

Date: Saturday, 11 June 2005

Comments

What can I say?! IT is truly magnificent website. The most comprehensive website about ancient Iranian civilisation that I ever have visited! To those involved in the process, my deepest thanks for introducing our great civilisation to the world; continue to keep up the great work. Our ancient history tells us the story of our ancestors’ achievements and it serves as an important reminder to us just whom we are and where we need to go. Many thanks to SOAS vision to move forward with this project and to the staff of the university for their steadfast dedication to see it through. 

Sincerely

Ashkan

Name: ksenija cermelj

Country: slovenia

Email: ksenijacermelj@yahoo.com

Date: Saturday, 04 June 2005

Comments

great site 

Name: catherine

Country: US

Email: cisabender@yahoo.com

Date: Thursday, 02 June 2005

Comments

Its good people are promoting historical cultural education, especially of Middle Eastern Nations at a time such as this. I applaud you

Name: s. sabet

Country: england

Email:  

Date: Friday, 20 May 2005

Comments

just interested in my father's country as i have never been there, found the persian iranian article interesting its good to read these sort of things about Iran as there is a lot of bad press about it around. 

Name: João Reis D'Affonseca

Country: Portugal

Email: krark_org@netcabo.pt

Date: Tuesday, 12 April 2005

Comments

Thank you a lot for your magnificent web. Your information are so important that I am going to announce today in my blog only, that is in Portuguese idiom. I hope that, at least, the Portuguese teachers read it. http://foziber.blogs.sapo.pt 

Name: Kevin Doherty

Country: England

Email: kevchefgod@yahoo.co.uk

Date: Tuesday, 29 March 2005

Comments

WOW, finally I've found all the information I've been looking for {and more} since I first heard of Zoroaster. I will visit and revisit this excellent site. Peace be with you all 

Name: Roxana Shafiee

Country: England-London

Email:  

Date: Wednesday, 16 March 2005

Comments

Its nice to see that the Iranian community is alive in London, as there aren't many organisations around. i found this site very informative and easy to use. Noroz Mabarak 

Name: Khalil Ghabaee

Country: United Kingdom

Email: khalillesley.ghabaee@tiscali.co.uk

Date: Sunday, 13 March 2005

Comments

This is the best site I have seen about Iran. Please keep me informed of any future programs and Exhibitions.

Congratulation

Khalil 

Name: maryam

Country: usa

Email: maryamcali@aol.com

Date: Friday, 11 March 2005

Comments

hi, just wanted to say happy new yr, and thanks for the great website 

Name: Kev

Country: England

Email:  

Date: Monday, 14 February 2005

Comments

Hi, just want to say this site is extremely interesting and informative, I'm gonna greatly enjoy reading the countless essays and articles. Cheers. 

Name: ali

Country: iran

Email: abumoslemkhorasani@yahoo.com

Date: Monday, 07 February 2005

Comments

Man kheili khoshal shodam ke site shoma ra didam! kaaretan aali ast! pirooz bashid

Name: Ali McNab

Country: U.K.

Email: ali.mcnab@btinternet.com

Date: Sunday, 30 January 2005

Comments

Browsing, and stumbled upon this site almost by accident. What a fantastic, serious, and scholarly collection of research resources! A refreshing and welcome discovery after wading through so much Mumbo-Jumbo on the ancient Oriental religions. A fantastic site, that has been bookmarked, and will be visited again many times in the near future.

Regards and congratulations,

Ali McNab.

Name: Tiesheng Li

Country: China,Hohhot

Email: LTSNM@263.net

Date: Thursday, 13 January 2005

Comments

I am a Chinese numismatist, interested in Silk Road coinage, I have learned a lot from your website, many thanks. twenty years ago I was a visiting scholar in UMIST, but in the Mechanical Department.

Name: dr mugu

Country: lome togo

Email: mugmag@yahoo.com

Date: Saturday, 08 January 2005

Comments

thanksssss for all

Name: Kazik

Country: Poland

Email:  

Date: Monday, 20 December 2004

Comments

Thank you so very much for having made available the important cultural information on your site. I have many friends across the world, I have a great deal of fun and personal reward learning about their culture. Here, I learn about my dear Persian friends, and celebrate with them. Thanks!

Name: Payam Ibrahimy Sabet

Country: iran

Email: feanor.4984@gmail.com

Date: Sunday, 28 November 2004

Comments

Name: aspi doctor

Country: india

Email: aspidoctor@hotmail.com

Date: Tuesday, 23 November 2004

Comments

I find the articles well researched and extremely readable. Have read all the articles over a period of two months. Thanks for an academic treat.

Name: Dave Livingston

Country: USA

Email: dlivingston@offspringnet.com

Date: Friday, 29 October 2004

Comments

Thank you for providing this information & website.

Perhaps a tad oddly, I was led to seek information about Bactria because a) The ancient empire of Bactria figures in, is the geographical setting for, a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson I'm reading, "The Shield of Time," TOR Books, 1991 & b) I'm something of a student of history (B.A., Univ. of Kansas, 1965) wanting to learn a bit more about the era, circa 209 B.C., & region than Anderson offers.In a moment I'm going to bookmark this website :)

Dominus tecum, DL

Name: Fari

Country:  

Email:  

Date: Friday, 08 October 2004

Comments

Wow. I'm proud, amazed and overall I am relieved that there exist such studies.

Name: paul

Country: ireland

Email:  

Date: Friday, 08 October 2004

Comments

hey was just on the website really enjoying it. U have helped me with all my questions and i really appreciate it xxx

Name: Shiva

Country: Australia

Email: shadow_2k_au@yahoo.com

Date: Sunday, 03 October 2004

Comments

I think this site is great. I always find strength in remembering the Persia of old because it is forgotten today. It is humbling, and i think all would feel the same about their own countries if they were fully aware of its past: struggles and triumphs to make us what we are now...or what we should be.

Name: Uchenna

Country: aba

Email: Uzoagba01@yahoo.com

Date: Saturday, 11 September 2004

Comments

I LOVE THE PAGE.

Name: farid

Country: iran,tehran

Email: farid_kani@yahoo.com

Date: Friday, 03 September 2004

Comments

well ,what i just visited was a perfect place to gain information about Iran, just in one word excellent .but you hardly find any one in Iran to see this ,sure because it is in English .you don't think that the most important visitors are Iranian? you have French ,Spanish and other languages but Persian. it would be very great if u do that ,then i myself would do any thing just to normal people know this site. thank u.

Name: Professor Jamshid Moori

Country: South Africa

Email: moori@ukzn.ac.za

Date: Tuesday, 31 August 2004

Comments

This is a very interesting and informative site. I recommend it to all people who love Iran and Iranians in its broader meaning.

I would be very grateful if you could tell me of the procedures for posting articles or essays on your site. With many thanks for your great service to the Iranian history and culture, Jamshid Moori.

Name: Bob Winchurch

Country: England

Email: rw004e7222@blueyonder.co.uk

Date: Wednesday, 18 August 2004

Comments

Very good. It highlighted parts of this era I was not knowledgeable about.

Name: Justin MacRae

Country: New Zealand

Email: nitsujnz001@hotmail.com

Date: Tuesday, 10 August 2004

Comments

I have found some great information here, and it has helped in writing my current novel. If there is anyone who can advise on the earliest known traditions, architecture, religion, weaponry and way of life as far back as is officially recorded for this geographic area i would be pleased to hear from you.

Name: danny cooper

Country: india

Email: danny65@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, 10 August 2004

Comments

dear sir/madam thanks for nice website about our good religion and please keep good work going and try to spread our good religion as many Iranians are trying to go back to their old religion as they know that they belong to Zoroastrians roots and not those [delete] who took our everything our culture, customs even our good religion but there will be time that we will flourish once again in Iran may Ahuramazda bless u and to all Zoroastrians proud to be an Iranian.

Name: SHARIF MASOUDI

Country: U.S.A.

Email: SMASOUDI@AOL.COM

Date: Wednesday, 04 August 2004

Comments

THIS IS VERY INTERESTING STUDY. DID YOU FIND ANY SOURCE CONFIRM MIGRATION FROM MAZENDARAN OR AROUND NORTH IRAN TO SOUTHWEST BEHBEHAN BEFORE 1700 A.C..

THANK YOU,

SHARIF MASOUDI

Name: Dariush Aryana

Country: Canada

Email: dariusaryana@yahoo.com

Date: Sunday, 18 July 2004

Comments

An exceptional source in the web. I am truly impressed by your work.

Name: julia

Country: england

Email: jujubigbum@hotmail.com

Remote Name: 192.168.84.94

Date: Thursday, 15 July 2004

Comments

I would like to know more

Name: Syed Ali Raza

Country: Pakistan

Email: makintl3@hotmail.com

Date: Wednesday, 14 July 2004

Comments

This Site is great. But if you add some snaps of different places of IRAN then that is much better for every one n informative.

Name: Eve

Country: USA

Email: evevw@yahoo.com

Date: Sunday, 11 July 2004

Comments

Thank you for this website. Very informative and well presented :)

Name: trdfdf

Country: Iran

Email: nemat_civil@yahoo.com

Date: Wednesday, 23 June 2004

Comments

Name: Robert

Country:  

Email:  

Date: Thursday, 20 May 2004

Comments

it would be nice if the texts were accompanied by some ancient maps

Name: Mr. Alexis Perlloni-Raguan

Country: Puerto Rico

Email: alexisperlloni@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, 18 May 2004

Comments

Well documented and with high quality presentations this is a very important resource in Ancient Iranian studies. I find this webpage highly recommendable to any one interested in the historical study of the Indo-European cultures.

Name: Mr. Alexis Perlloni-Raguan

Country: Puerto Rico

Email: alexisperlloni@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, 18 May 2004

Comments

Well documented and with high quality presentations this is a very important resource in Ancient Iranian studies. I find this webpage highly recommendable to any one interested in the historical study of the Indo-European cultures.

Name: Miranda Paige Couch

Country: Fisty KY

Email: shrimp_nay_love

Date: Monday, 17 May 2004

Comments

This is so cool i could learn something from this as i have leared alot from my teacher Miss Gayheart.

Name: Mehmet

Country: USA

Email: mehmet_bulut@yahoo.com

Date: Friday, 07 May 2004

Comments

Hi, I checked your website and I really think it is great. There is very helpful information. P.S. I am trying to email you with the email address you provided (cais@soas.ac.uk) but the message is not being sent for some reason. Is there any way I can reach you. Thanks

Name: Dana

Country: Sweden

Email: dana2368@hotmail.com

Date: Tuesday, 27 April 2004

Comments

Y Ali madad! Dastan xwash bood ara ay sajte. Dana Kakajy

Name: Arman

Country: iran

Email: Arman_fatahy@yahoo.com

Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2004

Comments

ده س تا وه ش بو وه شم ئامه.

Name: aspi doctor

Country: india

Email: aspidoctor@hotmail.com

Date: Thursday, 15 April 2004

Comments

i think your site is very informative and helpful to those interested in serious study

Name: Rachel

Country: England

Email:  

Date: Thursday, 01 April 2004

Comments

I think this site is great for people like me who want to know more and don't know where to start. It's fascinating stuff.

Name: Asaba Owerri

Country: Lagos

Email: homeboy_owerri_asaba@aba.us

Date: Monday, 29 March 2004

Comments

I love this site. It looks really nice. Keep it up.

Name: Bapoo M. Malcolm

Country: INDIA

Email: bapoomalcolm@vsnl.net

Date: Tuesday, 23 March 2004

Comments

Thanks for the effort. Am sure it is well worth it.

Bapoo M. Malcolm

Name: G. Blois

Country:  

Email:  

Date: Friday, 19 March 2004

Comments

Very interesting and informative.

Name: Orikaeze.

Country: OWERRI

Email: EZEUDELE@yahoo.com

Date: Wednesday, 17 March 2004

Comments

I love your site so go on.

Name: hamed

Country: iran

Email:  

Date: Tuesday, 09 March 2004

Comments

I'm student in Iran & love Indian people.

Name: Davood Bakhshi

Country: Japan

Email: bakhshidavood@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, 09 March 2004

Comments

Dear Sir, Thank you so much for preparing a good Persian Nams collection; it's really invaluable and the most complete one that I've ever seen. May I have the meaning and background of the name "Daha", if possible? Thank you again. Davood

Name: asaba owerri

Country: lagos

Email: homeboy_owerri_asaba@aba.us

Date: Friday, 27 February 2004

Comments

i love this page. it looks really nice and good. keep it up

Name: Gabby  Clark

Country:  

Email:  

Date: Monday, 23 February 2004

Comments

you need to make it easier for kids to find out where he was born and how he died. because i can not find it anywhere.

Name: Laurence Wolohan

Country: UK

Email: wolls2@hotmail.com

Date: Monday, 02 February 2004

Comments

A fascinating site well worth a browse. Well Done!

Name: Nasira

Country: United Kingdom

Email:  

Date: Monday, 26 January 2004

Comments

As I was looking at your website and reading through your guestbook I was extremely alarmed to find that you allow to feature racist, facist and every type of anti...anything. Particulary that you put a please not: "inappropriate materials, political comments...." etc.... Some of the people that leave messages on your guest book are racisit, facist low life people who will burn in hell for their heresy and blasphemy towards Islam. I thought that Iranians were meant to be respectable, tolerant people who respect others, including race and religion as Islam is tolerent of other religions, mark my words if a seriously bad fate has not befallen these people due to their heretical sayings then believe me it will. They cant even string a proper English Sentence together, so I sugeest they go wash themselves as they are dirty inside and out before they talk of a religion that is better than anything they have ever or will ever know. All I can say is I hope they rot in hell. and the people who manage this site ought to be careful of its contents and if these racist and blashpemos remarks are not removed from the guest book I will personally be speaking to the head of SOAS and I will be getting human rights organisations involved.

Name: Salmanuddin

Country: Pakistan

Email: salmangojali@hotmail.com

Date: Friday, 23 January 2004

Comments

HI I am salman From northren Pakistan belonging to a Wakhi Fmaily and was looking for my language wakhi ... and fond this link... any how this is good approach any wakhi from any part of the world visiting this link should write his or her view so we can do the best for our language......

Name: Blaire Harrnett

Country: Canada

Email: harnett17@hotmail.com

Date: Thursday, 15 January 2004

Comments

You should have some pictures of your art history.

Name: Louis CAMPOS

Country: FRANCE

Email: mithra.11@voila.fr

Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2004

Comments

Hi !

I've red in your website that Mithra's feast is the December 21 ! Sorry, but I've always learned that Mithra's celebration, at least under the Roman Empire, was December 25 (Jesus being born on April 19 !).

I just wanted to notice this. Thank you to read me ;-)

P.S. = Sorry for my English, I'm French.

Name: Faramarz Gharib

Country: Iran

Email: gharib@sanayetehran.com

Date: Sunday, 11 January 2004

Comments

I Have written the book, Justice Breaking-Law, research has been undertaken of the requirements for the degree of Ph.D in management. The main idia of the research is focused on; What we were in the past and what we are now and how we can get our pride and prosperity back, which we have lost it along the history so we we will be able to fulfil the necessities of copping with today world.

Name: Sandra Rodríguez

Country: Puerto Rico

Email:  

Date: Friday, 09 January 2004

Comments

I can't believe I'm the 1st person to visit. I've only skipped through it, plan to to read it, finding the origins of people (and any other origins) and our relationships to each other fascinating. After all according to genetics we all come from 2000 genetic ancestors. We should all study our roots.

Thank you!

Name: Wade Cole

Country: USA

Email: vetwrap@runestone.net

Date: Saturday, 03 January 2004

Comments

I found this site in search of information regarding King Cyrus' command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem and the time or timing of that decree. I find this site to be very informative historically.

Name: Noor Fazilah Ahmad Jamli

Country: Malaysia

Email: aznorain@netscape.net

Date: Wednesday, 31 December 2003

Comments

This site is very interesting and a very good effort to give more information about the history of ya'jooj and ma'jooj, I hope you can give more picture about the ruins and artifact that still can be seen untill today. what about the information on discovery of the mole people? is it related to the ya'jooj and ma'jooj too?

Name: Shahin Shabanian

Country: USA

Email: sshabani@pct.edu

Date: Monday, 29 December 2003

Comments

A well written and informative site. I enjoyed expanding my knowledge and relaying this site to my friends.

Name: Rose Zeini

Country: New Zealand

Email: rose@matterhorn.co.nz

Date: Friday, 26 December 2003

Comments

Thank you for such an informative account! My friends and I are debating - people we meet who left Iran before the fall of the last Shah refer to themselves as Persian, whereas others since the Revolution call themselves Iranian. Is there in fact a social difference. ie were the exiled Persians a particular class of peoples or religious group who still hold the former name as the 'true' name of the region. Thank you if this can in fact be answered!

Name: Rose Zeini

Country: New Zealand

Email:  

Date: Friday, 26 December 2003

Comments

Thank you for such an informative account! My friends and I are debating - people we meet who left Iran before the fall of the last Shah refer to themselves as Persian, whereas others since the Revolution call themselves Iranian. Is there in fact a social difference. ie were the exiled Persians a particular class of peoples or religious group who still hold the former name as the 'true' name of the region. Thank you if this can in fact be answered!

Name: Jenny Huynh

Country: UK

Email: j.d.q.huynh@sussex.ac.uk

Date: Friday, 19 December 2003

Comments

A fantastic website. I came to the website looking for Turner's article on the roots of Saxon in ancient Persian. And to my surprise there is a website full of interesting articles--especially the one which connects Persia with Vietnam (I was born in Vietnam). This made me realise all over again in a very poignant way how we cannot speak simply of "a people" much less "a nation" for that matter!

Name: Nehemiah Austin

Country: America

Email: song_of_boromir@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, 16 December 2003

Comments

I find this site quite helpful in gaining insight. I am merely an amateur in my studies (I'm not even a student), but I am just looking around, glancing at all things Iranian. I am trying to collect material that pre-dates the Elamite era, you see, I have a fantasy( much like that German chap that found Troy did) that Iran holds a find of Paramount importance. Or at least for I hold with this theory. This site is first rate.

Name: dinaz kutar rogers

Country: USA

Email: drogersor@msn.com

Date: Saturday, 29 November 2003

Comments

I am researching about that time in history when Surena Pahlav, an Iraninan king, who a few months before Jesus' birth, defeated the Roman army and marched into Jerusalem. Thereafter he was murdered and his defeated army left for Persia. Their departure left a vacuum which was filled in by the Romans...and the rest is history. Except for this reference in William H. Forbes 'FALL OF THE PEACOCK THRONE: THE STORY OF IRAN. 1981, I can't find this incident anywhere. Can you please help? I am writing about this and the Magi--for FEZANA magazine. Thanks

Name: Kird

Country: Austria

Email: kird1938_62@lycos.at

Date: Thursday, 27 November 2003

Comments

zazaki is a kurdish dialect and zazas or correctly written kirmancs are kurds. The most well-known rebellions sheikh said, dersim and kocgiri were from zaza kurds. They calls themselves as kirmanc what also means kurd. see here www.zazaki.org or www.kirmancki.com

Name: Nwamadi Maga

Country: USA

Email: Maga@maga.com

Date: Wednesday, 26 November 2003

Comments

I really love your web site. Keep it up.

Name: casey

Country: united states of america

Email: tomboy9630@yahoo.com

Date: Thursday, 20 November 2003

Comments

thanks for the great info. i got an A+ on my project!!!

Name: Manijeh Mir-`Emadi

Country: Iran

Email: Miremadi@tavoosmag.com

Date: Tuesday, 18 November 2003

Comments

I would like to be informed of all future events and exhibitions.

Name: Simindokht Dehghani

Country: Iran

Email: Simind@aol.com

Date: Tuesday, 18 November 2003

Comments

Name: Samule

Country: Canada

Email: samunique1@hotmail.com

Date: Thursday, 13 November 2003

Comments

Very Interesting! I had always wondered about the significant of celebrating Yalda by Iranians. Waht a rich culture!

Name: babayadgar

Country:  

Email: babayadgar@yahoo.com

Date: Sunday, 09 November 2003

Comments

besiyaar kaareh zibaai kardid.

Name: kohyar

Country: U.S.A

Email: kbball6@aol.com

Date: Wednesday, 05 November 2003

Comments

its great to see a Iranian person achnoliging our great and noble history, if only we could go back to the way it was before the industrial revolution that have plagued all countries on this world.

Name: Saman M. Moghaddam

Country: Sweden

Email:  

Date: Thursday, 30 October 2003

Comments

I just love this site. Keep up the good work.

Payandeh bad xâke Iran-e-ma.

Name: Paul Sacia

Country: USA

Email: paul111555@msn.com

Date: Saturday, 25 October 2003

Comments

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Your good works are very interesting! I admire your excellent scholarship and analytical writing. My surname, Sacia, is prevalent in Sicily, Spain, somewhat in Bilbao, and South America. I have read that Sacia was a province that was once under the Persian kings. Some say Sacia on Euphrates. Any comment? Sacia = Isaac, "He who laughs."

Name: viraf fitter

Country: britain

Email: zarathustra786@hotmail.com

Date: Thursday, 23 October 2003

Comments

Happy to see such an informative website, keep up the good work. if you need any help you can contact me at zarathustra786@hotmail.com

Name: karaer

Country: Netherlands

Email: h.karaer@freeler.nl

Date: Thursday, 02 October 2003

Comments

Dear Mr.Paul,

Your website is politically motivated (it is far from certain whether the „making of the Zaza nation“ will reach a successful conclusion.) , it is quite clear, but what i do not understand that you asking your visitors not mention any political comments. If you are familiar with Zaza nation? you understands even scientific publications has to be politically.So you are not honest on this kind of issues.Why you are not accepting critic. I am asking you why jiddish is not hebrew. Thank you

Name: Ramiro Besada

Country: Colombia

Email: rbesadal@yahoo.com

Date: Wednesday, 01 October 2003

Comments

I am new comer to the Zoroastrian faith. I am in the process of gathering reading material and what I have found in this site has seem very important to me. I certainly appreciate the opportunity to download such wonderful material. Please let us have more of it. I found several sites still under construction but I do hope they will be ready soon. Thank you very much.

Name: Yury Jakymec

Country: Venezuela

Email: yuryjakymec@yahoo.com

Date: Saturday, 27 September 2003

Comments

Very interesting site. I hope one day will visit you to see expositions about Iranian ancient culture. For now very good site to study the history of such a lovely country

Name: Aryan

Country: Iran

Email: nejadarya@yahoo.com

Date: Friday, 26 September 2003

Comments

Dear Mr. Mohammad Naser Raisi,

You don't even sound Iranian to me. An Iranian woman with [Mohammad Naser name!] would die but doesn't greet by "Salam Alaykum", which is a truly Arabic format of greeting! Second, I have never heard the expression "khodahafez Naz"! Where did you get that from?

You must be from Pakistan or somewhere, I don't know! whatever...to respond to your comment about women's veil and stuff (although your message was not clear enough) I should say there might be many traditions that are practiced or many customs which are worn in Iran in particular regions yet they are not part of "Iranian culture". Many of them are borrowed or forced from or by the neighboring countries. The greatest misfortune of Iran is that she is surrounded by not very favorable countries.

Name: mohammed naser raisi

Country: united kingdom

Email: raisi72@yahoo.com

Date: Thursday, 25 September 2003

Comments

slam alakum i have been pleased to visit your site but there is in my knowledge some thing i was expecting is the south east of Iran (sestan balochistan) which is the quit big part of iran and there is many kind of hate like dasthmaal, paagh, and for female is sareegh and shaal i am not challeginge your knowledge or research but in my knowledge sestaan balochistan is part of iran so it should be include in iranian culture if i am wrong i will be very happy if u make me clear khuda hafiz naz

Name: John Halsted

Country: UK

Email: johndhalsted@aol.com

Date: Sunday, 21 September 2003

Comments

Dear CAIS

I am reading up on Viking travels, not to America as so many do, but to Central Asia and the far east. Do you offer a course of study in this area that I could do? Also, is there any way I can obtain access to your library for research in this area? I have recently completed a postgraduate masters degree at Bath University, but unfortunately they do not offer any historical studies.

Otherwise please put me on your mailing list.

Regards

John Halsted

Name: armin

Country: iran

Email:  

Date: Saturday, 20 September 2003

Comments

I love Zoroaster .

Name: James Thompson

Country: Canada

Email: jamesas@attcanada.ca

Date: Tuesday, 16 September 2003

Comments

James AS Thompson Researcher Toronto Canad for Rewind Films working on a documentary Buildings of Faith on ancient religions and their architectural buildings as evidence of their faiths and their cultures I would be grateful to be in contact with anyone who knows about Zoroastrian fire temples and images to Ahura Mazda in pre-Islamic Iran

Name: OSSETIAN

Country: AUSTRALIA

Email: carloshoya_23@hotmail.com

Date: Monday, 15 September 2003

Comments

HI ALL:)

I'm Ossetian from Caucasus :) Want to say hi to all my brothers in Iran :) Keep fighting for your race guys :)

Name: Pedram

Country: Persian

Email: Astovidatu_@hotmail.com

Date: Monday, 25 August 2003

Comments

Aryan Greets! Thank you for the time and effort you have put in this website, it´s great! I hope that this once again proves what kind of a race and history us Persians had, and that this is a prove that we [ ..... deleted ] 

Name: Seung Chang

Country: Korea

Email: schang230@yahoo.com

Date: Thursday, 14 August 2003

Comments

Nice site I really love it.

Name: Dr. F  Youssefifar

Country: United Kingdom

Email: fyoussefifar@hotmail.com

Date: Monday, 11 August 2003

Comments

I find this website extremely interesting and aim to spend a few hours each week studying it.

I have seldom been exposed to this form of study on my country and its past. Sadly, history was never promoted as forcefully as maths or physics in my school in Iran. For this reason, us Iranians have a very shallow and basic knowledge of our history.

This website enables me to fill in the gaps in my knowledge of the history of the language my country. I am very impressed.

Name: Jeremy Alam

Country: Australia

Email: jalam@bigpond.com

Date: Wednesday, 06 August 2003

Comments

This is a great website for anyone interested in Iranian history, art, society and culture. I am trying to piece together information on Sassanian culture for which there is so little original material, and yet was very influential in bringing classical knowledge and original ideas in science, mathematics, architecture and medicine to the west. Your informative articles are an oasis of knowledge. Keep up the good work!

Name: candia dinshaw nee mcwilliam

Country: uk

Email: cleminol@hotmail.com

Date: Monday, 04 August 2003

Comments

thank you for such a clear and informative site. i have a parsi son and always want to know more and how i as a christian can make sure that his zoroastrianism is respected and revealed and developed . he is in character and behavior most parsi whichh is a daily fascination and lesson to me. now his parsi grandparents are dead i feel i must gain knowledge that is less approximate; while i have always felt admiration for the religion it has been uninformed. i do not wish to sound touristic, but it is religion that is of enormous weight and value in a time of hysteria disproportion and excess.

Name: Henning Boerm

Country: Germany

Email: procopius@gmx.net

Date: Saturday, 26 July 2003

Comments

A very nice website. I am currently working on a doctoral thesis on Procopius and the Sasanians (supervised by Professor Josef Wiesehoefer, Kiel). I'm sure I'll visit this page more than once.

Name: S. Kerr

Country: Australia

Email:  

Date: Sunday, 20 July 2003

Comments

Accidentally stumbled on the site when I came across Professor Mary Boyce's paper on Mithraism. The letters SOAS stood out loud and clear. During my many visits to London I have enjoyed the use of the SOAS library, courtesy of Professor Boyce. The work you have put in and the many contributions submitted are just superb.

Name: Captain Bakhtyar Sheheryar Kaoosji

Country: INDIA/MALAYSIA

Email: kaoosji_my@yahoo.com

Date: Sunday, 20 July 2003

Comments

It is a wonderful site for a person interested in Persian History and Iran in general. Keep up the good job. I find no entries in the Archaeological News after June 2002.These news items are very well researched and written for a lay man like me to understand. I will take quiet some time to go over the contents of this beautiful addition to my favourite readings. I congratulate all concerened Bakhtyar...

Name: Kordi

Country: Iran the beatifull

Email: zimnako4iran@yahoo.com

Date: Wednesday, 16 July 2003

Comments

In response to sheick Faysal Abdul whatever it was. scroll down to find out.

Iran belongs to Arabs? Iranians came and occupied Aarb Land? when and who needs a desert? when Iran was a civilized empire, you were [ deleted ]  in Arabia. It was your [ deleted ]  prophets and his crew that spread out the Arab people. you Arabs have 23 states. the Jews deserve Israel. Good for them. Long live the Jews. You Arabs are the real [ deleted ]  and you people have the [ deleted ]  women. I think before you say anything try to break free from all [ deleted ]  that Arabs fill their Kids mind since the day they are born.

No wonder why you people cant with an open mind. We will kick your savage [ deleted ]  out of our Iran and send it back to Arabia. the full package. I recommend all my fellow Iranians to abandon this [ deleted ] and [ deleted ]  religion created by a [ deleted ]  and a [ deleted ].

Name: A . Oncu Guney

Country: Turkey

Email: oncuguney@yahoo.com

Date: Wednesday, 09 July 2003

Comments

I have just read the information about the Harranians in your page. That was a great information source about the mandaeans but the same confusion was made. The Harranians were not Sabians or other word Mandaeans. They were the pagan natives of city of Harran. They were in some kind of star-worship religion. Detailed information about the Harranians can be found in the book "the Knowledge of Life" by Sinasi Gündüz by Cambridge Books. Id like to keep contact with you because I study at METU (Middle East Technical University)and me and few friends has set a studying group called AERO (Anatolian Ethnological Researchs Organisation) and we are interested in the Harranians, the Yezidiies, the Nusairies, The Druzes of this land. we could share information and may start new working projects if you wish

Sincerely A. Oncu Guney

Name: Foroud Behizadeh

Country: Persia

Email: jimbehizadeh@yahoo.com

Date: Monday, 07 July 2003

Comments

Migrated from Persia to US in 1970,I knew my name is in Shahnameh, but not until now did not know who Foroud was. Thank You for the great job you are doing. Keep up the good work.

Name: Mehrdad

Country: USA

Email:  

Date: Saturday, 05 July 2003

Comments

Zoroastrian Religion, Persian History, Z. Newsletter, Online Group and more at http://www.PersianDNA.com

Name: Alex

Country: Russia

Email: loel@bk.ru

Date: Thursday, 03 July 2003

Comments

Gentlemen, Thanks a lot for the website! Please advise what sizes of columns in Persepolis were used. I need their dimensions, quantity of canelures (shaft’s segments). Which palace and Ivan (palace’s balcony) has certain type of columns (Bull, Griffin or Man-Bull capitals). There’s no information on the Oriental Institute’s (Chicago) website. Please help!

With kindest regards, Alex Kronin.

Name: Joseph H. Peterson

Country: USA

Email: joe@esotericarchives.com

Date: Wednesday, 02 July 2003

Comments

Thanks for including my essay on Tiragan on your web site. I was surprised though to find no mention back to me or my web site (http://www.avesta.org/tiragan.htm), and your own copyright notice. I'd appreciate if you could add a link and cite me as the author.

By the way, I understand the alternate spellings, but I have consciously tried to adhere to Kotwal-Boyd's spellings in all my web content to make it easier to do searches.

Best wishes,

Joseph H. Peterson, avesta.org

Name: Paul Sacia

Country: USA

Email: paul111555@msn.com

Date: Sunday, 29 June 2003

Comments

Thank you for your serious research and theories. I learned a lot that is supported by facts, rather than a glittering generality such as, "the lost tribes of Israel," or "Bible prophecy and ...".

Name: Gian Luca Bonora

Country: Italy

Email: glbono71@hotmail.com

Date: Saturday, 28 June 2003

Comments

A very important and useful source of information and data about the Iranian archaeology

Gian Luca Bonora

Name: Nik Mehr

Country: Sweden

Email: nik_mehr@hotmail.com

Date: Monday, 09 June 2003

Comments

I really like this site and im going to use it alot in my studies and personal readings.

Thank you for the efforts.

Name: Jayant

Country: India

Email: baharroy@hotmail.com

Date: Thursday, 05 June 2003

Comments

Am interested to find a firm connection between ancient Persia and ancient India. Am still going through all of your essays. What I have been through is good to excellent. I hope to find more, any a great job. Thanks.

Name: Mojtaba

Country: UK

Email: mojtaba_akhtari@myway.com

Date: Sunday, 01 June 2003

Comments

You have done a great job; well done! But it seems that you are not active that much anymore. I hope that I am not right! [ deleted ]

Name: Osamah ELDaly

Country: Alexandria,Egypt

Email: O_addaly@yahoo.com

Date: Thursday, 15 May 2003

Comments

Dear Contributors to CAIS, CAIS at SOAS, University of London, UK. My name is Osamah ELDaly,I am an Egyptian Archaeologist interested in Iranian Studies. Your website is a masterpiece. Thanks and Best regards.

O. ELDaly

Name: Nazenin

Country: UK

Email: naznouri@yahoo.co.uk

Date: Monday, 05 May 2003

Comments

Hi, i am an Iranian living in London and as I am very interested in finding out more about the history of Iran, I think this website can help me do that. I found this website when i had made a bet with a friend about whether Chess is an Iranian or an Indian invention and was very pleased to find, from this web site, that it was Iran- I won the bet!

Name: aspi doctor

Country: india

Email: aspidoctor@hotmail.com

Date: Sunday, 04 May 2003

Comments

as an academician i appreciate the quality of research that has gone into the preparation of your site

Name: mehdi

Country: iran

Email: ashkan551@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, 22 April 2003

Comments

hi ,i am an Iranian student of archaeology i need the source of the takht-e-suleiman tank very much

Name: mojgan  yassini

Country: USA

Email: myassini7@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, 08 April 2003

Comments

this site is great. I research about ( Shapur I statue) and your site gives me more and new information. thanks for such a good work

Name: Arian

Country: UK

Email:  

Date: Saturday, 29 March 2003

Comments

Regarding Sohrab Darisiro's thread...

I am a kord myself, kords are Iranians, kordestan is just one region in Iran, perhaps u need to go and read more real fact based history books, poople who say Kords are a different race and a separate country are simply [ deleted ], and must be getting paid or working for [ deleted ], I am ashamed as a kord to see some Iraqi kords/turkish kords/Syrian kords sell themselves and their land just for the sake of money, I was born in Sanandaj , my gran parents are from Mehabad, we dont say we want our old lands back which are all located partly in Turkey Iraq and Syria, what makes u the right to claim my land? Iran has always stood up against the traitors, Arabs didnt manage to destroy it nor did the Greeks, so all I can say is keep your hands off our land or we will cut them for u.

Long Live Iran (Land Of The Aryans)

Biji u Iran

Name: Yashar Baradaran

Country: Iran - Hungary

Email: haumann01@hotmail.com

Date: Sunday, 23 March 2003

Comments

Hello , I am an Iranian student studying engineering in Hungary. As soon i was exposed to Hungarian language since 4 years ago I was surprised by amount of deep "grammar-level", in addition to word-level ,similarities between Hungarian language and Persian language. The surprise was intense enough to drive me to search for roots of this similarity. Today I visited this website and I found it very impressive in this regards. I wonder if there is someone who can help me on my search .. :))

Name: Chelsa Lauren Ramey

Country: Xenia,ohio

Email:  

Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

Comments

I love this website because it give me the information that i need all the time. and i get a grade for it, thank you

Name: Naz

Country: England

Email:  

Date: Tuesday, 18 March 2003

Comments

I am an Iranian and I would like to see some of the girls names please.

Name: Sue Zagars

Country: USA

Email: gkzag@hal-pc.org

Date: Sunday, 02 March 2003

Comments

Please add my name email address to mailing list thank you. I was researching 'Peoples of the Pamirs' and came across your web-site. Very helpful.

Name: Norair Viraboff-Babadjanian

Country: England

Email: babadjanian@hotmail.com

Date: Sunday, 02 March 2003

Comments

What a wonderful website! Please keep up for the sake of all of us who feel they are part of the bigger Iran - the Persians, Tadjiks, Armenians, Ossetians, and many others. Iran - is an enormous unifying idea for many peoples of Middle East, Central Asia, and Caucasus. I am proud to be part of this glorious culture. Thank you very much!

Name: Evangelos Venetis

Country: UK

Email: E.Venetis@sms.ed.ac.uk

Date: Monday, 17 February 2003

Comments

An important effort for the promotion of the Iranian civilization of the pre-Islamic era.

Name:  

Country: USA

Email:  

Date: Saturday, 08 February 2003

Comments

Thank you so much for this wonderful site. Excellent work.

Name: Bazgashtegan

Country: UK

Email: bazgashtegan@yahoo.co.uk

Date: Sunday, 26 January 2003

Comments

I liked the site very much and thx to Mr. Keykhosrow Dinshah Irani and Mr. Farrokh Jal Vajifdar for the wonderful subject of conversion to Zoroastrian. I am born as a Muslim in Iran but i converted to Din-e Behi, my ancestors religion, not only me but also my sisters and brother in low and 7 of my Iranian friends have converted to Zoroastrianism. [ deleted ]  

Name: Bonnie Ghaffarian

Country: USA

Email: canta@emerytelcom.net

Date: Saturday, 18 January 2003

Comments

My interest in Iranian art has to do with my son. His father is from Mashad, Iran. We are looking into the culture of his ancestors.

Name: Arielle Hart

Country: USA

Email: frasokereti@hotmail.com

Date: Thursday, 16 January 2003

Comments

It has been a pleasure to visit your site. I had the great honour of studying with Dr. Mary Boyce in 1977 when she was a visiting scholar at Indiana University. Despite the fact that I did not go beyond my graduate studies at IU, the study of Zoroastrianism has affected, and continues to affect my life profoundly.

Name: Life Simulator .

Country: IR 

Email: kh_shahin@yahoo.com

Date: Sunday, 05 January 2003

Comments

I'm a computer programmer ,but I love IRAN & when looking for Iranian dress, local music & ... on internet ,see your site . I'm very sad about that  because You know more about our but we don't know what we have !

Name: mammad

Country: canada

Email: mammadca@yahoo.com

Date: Monday, 25 November 2002

Comments

a valuable site, also another source to deal with impacts of the east on Roman empire (specially Iranian civilization) from a unique point of view is a book called:" Rome in the east" written by: Warwick Ball. I had not found anything like that, highly recommended. wish u success

Name: Dr. Danish A Jabbar

Country: Pakistan

Email: augusteum@hotmail.com

Date: Saturday, 09 November 2002

Comments

A good site to start with especially the links. However the section on the Sassanids needs to be more elaborate. You have nothing to contribute on Khusrow Pervaiz? If anyone can kindly forward to me good links or a discussion group on Sassanids, please do so at this e-mail address: augusteum@hotmail.com

Name: D. Desai

Country: USA

Email: dev123456789@hotmail.com

Date: Saturday, 26 October 2002

Comments

I am glad someone operate site devoted to Zarathushtra. I am Hindu but I believe I must have been Zarathushtrian in my previous life. I have grown up among Paris's in neighborhood. When i was a child there was no difference to me whether puja was carried out in Sanskrit or a dasturji doing his prayers. Since I left India, I felt, I am deprived of my feelings that was close to me. I was loved by Paris's so much that I had a traditional dress of a Parsi [a gift from a Parsi elder]. I miss all the Parsi household who lived in my neighborhood: I miss Hosang Mirza who is my friend.

Name: arg antique

Country: UAE

Email: arg_antique@yahoo.com

Date: Saturday, 19 October 2002

Comments

Persian

Name: Hugh

Country: Queens, NY, US

Email: Keepitburner@aol.com

Date: Tuesday, 15 October 2002

Comments

This site delivers, in the most fascinating detail, the history and culture of one of the world's greatest and most beautiful peoples. With a style unfound anywhere else, the site makes the story and chronology of Persian history even more fun exploring. Please keep this site accessible to all, and thank you!!

Name: Susan Ellis

Country: USA

Email: susan_ellis35@yahoo.com

Date: Saturday, 14 September 2002

Comments

I am a student of art history concentrating in ancient Persian ceramics. there is so much on this site that is applicable. It's great!

Name: David

Country: USA

Email:  

Date: Thursday, 12 September 2002

Comments

I discovered your site by accident. It is a treasure. I cannot thank you enough.

Name: Kim

Country: Australia

Email:  

Date: Saturday, 07 September 2002

Comments

HI , I just came and had a look at your perfume thing and i found it really interesting. I am only 13 but still i t was great !! Keep up the good work! Even though it did take a while to read it all . thanks mate!

Name: Ashkan

Country: Iran

Email:  

Date: Saturday, 24 August 2002

Comments

this is a great web site, I liked the Ashkanian part!

Name: DARUSH

Country: AYRAN

Email: ARYANTHOUGHT@YAHOO.COM

Date: Wednesday, 21 August 2002

Comments

thank you for all of your efforts for our great and endless country AYRAN. please add your site much more articles about IRAN.

Name: Homayoun

Country: USA

Email: delepaak@aol.com

Date: Thursday, 01 August 2002

Comments

I have only one comment and question. Well done job. How can I thank enough?

Name: Crazy Croat

Country: Croatia (Hrvatska)

Email: yazdgerd@hotmail.com

Date: Thursday, 25 July 2002

Comments

Beautiful site, with many information's which cannot be found elsewhere. I'd like you to have more information about Iranian military during history.

Name:

Country: Liverpool, UK

Remote Name: 205.188.197.48 

Date: Sunday, 26 May 2002

Comments

Firstly, an excellent site - well done and keep it up!

I am particularly interested in the Parthian, Sasanian and Early Islamic periods of Iranian history.

The author of an 'Overview of the Sassanian Military, Chris Cornuelle states that this article appeared in the ISSN registered journal of the Society of Ancients, 'Slingshot'. As a committee member and long term contributor on Sasanian related subjects, I must point out that such an attribution is incorrect. I would be grateful if this statement could be corrected forthwith.

As an ISSN journal serving a global membership of 1600+, the 'Slingshot' publishes papers at the discretion of the Editor from academics and amateurs alike. Incorrect attribution - by error or otherwise, will not reflect well on the journal or the Society.

I can be contacted for further details or our website www.soa.org.uk may be consulted.

I would be only too pleased to provide material on the Sasanian military for your site upon request.

This is a personal communication - not made on behalf of the Society.

Phil Halewood

Slinghsot Contributions Officer 

Name: G. Reza Garosi 

Country:

Remote Name:

Date: Thursday, 16 May 2002

Comments

Hello: Just I can say you: THANK YOU

Name:

Country: IRAN

Remote Name: 62.217.126.200

Date: Wednesday, 15 May 2002

Comments

I'm became very glad when i find this web site i think that this site can help same of student in Iran and other countries. keep it up and not be tired.

Name:

Country:

Remote Name:

Date:

Comments

Thank you for all your work, which enables me to do a lot more from where I am.

Name: Neeraj Salunkhe

Country: India

Remote Name: 61.1.98.80

Date: Monday, 13 May 2002

Comments

I am an Indian lecture in History interested in studying Indo Iranian pre Islamic relations especially with south India. I have travelled south India , gone through hundreds of original sources like inscriptions and want to study further migrations from Iran.

Name: Shahin-Raphael Yaqubian

Country: Israel (but my heart & soul in Iran)

Remote Name: 193.124.197.54
Date: Monday, 22 April 2002

Comments

If I told you this is a 'note-worthy' experience, I would mean it 'positively' ever way you can take it. Thank God that people like you are using their talent to put something of 'note,' worth and Iranian in value on the internet!. Keep up the good work.

Name: Sohrab Amirlkhanian

Country: Persia

Remote Name: 201.12.194.67
Date: Sunday, 21 April 2002

Comments

My Mother, a woman of great patriotism, sent this page to me. Her nationality is still in tact! I am truly enjoying your site. Thank you for making it available. Long Live Iran.

Name: Parisa Momeni

Country: usa

Remote Name: 193.46.87.19
Date: Sunday, 21 April 2002

Comments

Thank you so much for this beautiful website. I have been searching for a Persian history website for a long time now, Thank you for providing plenty of information.

Name: Nazi Khojasteh

Country: USA

Remote Name: 200.12.94.202
Date: Sunday, 21 April 2002

Comments

Hello, I, as some others just stumbled upon your site, however, I find this a very inspirational site indeed. May God continue this great work in you, for all of us to share.

Name: Curtis Randles

Country: UK

Remote Name: 140.11.54.194
Date: Saturday, 20 April 2002

Comments

I found this site very interesting. It is hard to find reliable sources in the Web, and this site is serious and also well designed.

In past I have studies New and Middle Persian (Pahlavi), and currently am studying Avestan and Old-Persian Languages, and I found the Ancient Iranian Languages, like Greek and Latin, brings us closer to the Indo-European roots of most western languages. In fact, I believe it should be required teaching in Europe and the US as it provides a great basis for the study of western culture.

In addition the wealth and structure of the Persian language always made it a tool of choice for abstract thinking. Philosophy, mathematics, politics, physics, etc were always better discussed in Persian than in Greek and Latin.

Name: Andrew

Country: UK

Remote Name: 140.11.54.194
Date: Saturday, 20 April 2002

Comments

Excellent sight, wonderful to see the interest in the foundation of so much beautiful culture. An inspiration.

Name: Roxana

Country: USA

Remote Name: 124.16.167.200
Date: Friday, 19 April 2002

Comments

I stumbled upon a book of knowledge: your website.

Name: Ali Mousavi

Country: Iran

Remote Name: 212.25.117.73
Date: Friday, 19 April 2002

Comments

The best sites I have visited. Keep up the good work. It makes you proud to be Iranian.

Name: Rev. Bill Mark

Country: Pennsylvania, USA

Remote Name: 152.163.204.182
Date: Thursday, 18 April 2002

Comments

I enjoyed reading about the Iranian civilization in your web site.

Name: Rostam

Country: Iran

Remote Name: 12.75.173.17
Date: Thursday, 18 April 2002

Comments

We Persians should be prepared for the coming war against Arabs again. It is not a question if we will have war against these savage lizard eaters, but only when.

Name: Lai Saechao

Email:

Country: USA

Remote Name: 211.87.33.165  
Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2002

Comments

Once again this site has helped me find thing that will help me in my class. Thanks a lot!

Name: Claude