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Note: We only exchange links with academically oriented, cultural
organisations
and
scholarly
based websites that are related to ancient Iran and Iranian civilisation.
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Academic Establishment
2.
Cultural Organisations & Websites
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Zoroastrian
4.
Iranian Studies (Publications)
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Web Resources
6.
Cultural News Agencies
7.
Good Causes
8.
Miscellaneous
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ACADEMIC ESTABLISHMENTS
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Achemenet.com,
publication of documents and documentary tools relating to the
history of the Ancient Iran (incl. Middle East and the Central Asia)
at the time of the domination Achaemenid Dynasty between Cyrus the
Great to Alexander invasion (550-320 BCE). |
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Archaeological
Excavation at Tal-e Malâyân (Anshân) |
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Excavations
in Arisman: Ancient Mining and Metallurgy in Western
Central Iran |
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British
Museum (The), Ancient Iran section |
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Institute
of Archaeology University College, London (UCL). |
 | Iranian
Studies at Harvard University |
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Near
Eastern and Asian Civilizations Department (NEAC) Royal
Ontario Museum. |
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Oriental
Institute (The) -- The Chicago University |
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Persepolis/Ancient
Iran - The Detroit Institute of Arts. |
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Research
Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics (Iran) |
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Sasanian
Iran at The Hermitage Museum, Russia. |
 | Sasanian
Seal Collection: The Gans collection of Sasanian seals in
the University of California at Berkeley. |
 | Sasanika
(California State University, Fullerton), A scholarly web-site dedicated to Iranian Civilisation during the
reign of Sasanian dynasty; -articles about the Sasanian art,
archaeology, culture and history. |
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Tal-i
Malyan - Archaeological excavations at the site of Tal-i
Malyan, the ancient Elamite city of Anshan. |
 | Threat to world heritage in Iraq, University of
Oxford. |
 | UCLA
Language Materials Project, The UCLA Language
Materials Project (LMP) is an on-line bibliographic database of
teaching and learning materials for over 100 Less Commonly Taught
Languages (LCTLs), including Iranian Languages. |
2.
CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS & WEBSITES
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Iran and India Trust (The), provides
a focal point where scholars and members of the public with interests
in the cultures of the ancient Indian and Iranian worlds can meet and
discuss matters of common interest and use its unique library. |
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Ancient
Persia Fund (The) is a non
political UK-registered charity, with the aim to encourage and support
the study of Ancient Iran (Persia) and related areas including Central
Asia. |
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Andronovo
Culture; This
culture is of great importance in understanding the early history of
the Indo-Iranian speaking peoples. The linguistic interpretation of
this culture is under discussion as well as its origin and chronology. |
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British
Institute of Persian Studies,
an academic body which promotes scholarship and research in all
aspects of Iranian Studies. |
 | Corpus
Fontium Manichaeorum, the Corpus
Fontium Manichaeorum Project is a major international research and
publication project sponsored by UNESCO under the aegis of the Integrated
Study of the Silk Road. It is a project of the Union of International
Academies (Union Académique Internationale UAI) and its sponsoring academy
is the Australian Academy of the Humanities, devoted to Manichaean studies. |
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Grifterrec.com
featuring Information and illustrations of Sasanian coins. |
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Iran
Heritage Foundation A
non political UK-registered charity, with the aim to encourage and
support the study of Ancient Iran (Persia) and related areas including
Central Asia. |
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Transoxiana,
(Journal Libre de Estudios Orientales) -- One of the most well
organized, scholarly, and comprehensive online source of information
on oriental (including Iranian) history, art and culture. |
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Lost
City of Arabia; Nova
Online's fascinating web site with information about the Shisur site
in modern Oman, from the public television series. In an interview
(September 1996), Dr. Yuris Zarins discusses evidence of Iranian under
Parthian dynasty's influence in the Arabian peninsula. |
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Parthia.com,
by Edward C. D. Hopkins, the most comprehensive site
about Parthian Dynasty on the internet. |
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Persian
Gulf Task Force, for preservation of the Heritage and
Sovereignty of the Persian Gulf. |
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Persian
Studies by Reza Moradi Ghiasabadi, dedicated to the Iranian
culture and archaeoastronomy (in Persian, with few English and Russian
articles). |
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Roshan
Cultural Heritage Institute, A non-profit organization
supporting the preservation, transmission, and instruction of Persian
'culture'. |
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Silkroad
Foundation, The Silkroad Foundation is a non-profit
organisation, established in 1996, to promote the study and
preservation of cultures and art on Inner Asia and the Silk Road. The
Foundation provides a range of textual and image resources aimed at
academics, researchers and students of the history and culture of the
Silk Road. |
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Turanian
Horse -- Web site which
gives the history and importance of the breed to the Parthian horses. |
3.
ZOROASTRIAN RELIGION
 | Avesta
- Zoroastrian Archive, provides the complete text of the
extant Devine Avesta, the most ancient scriptures of Zarathushtrian
religion, as well as many Pahlavi scriptures. |
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Vohuman.org
-- A Zoroastrian Educational Institute to
preserve and promote the Universal Message of Prophet Zarathushtra. |
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Zarathusahtrian
Assembly -- A non-profit, non-political religious corporation with the aim of studying and disseminating
information on the Divine Message of Prophet Zarathushtra.
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Zoroastrian
Calendar, Conversion of Shenshai, Kadmi, Fasli to Gregorian
dates and vice-versa. It has a range of more than 400 years, which can
go back in time and in far future.
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4.
IRANIAN STUDIES (PUBLICATIONS) & MEDIA
 | Bulletin
of the Asia Institute, A scholarly journal, regarding the
art, archaeology, numismatics, history and languages of ancient Iran,
Mesopotamia, and Central Asia and connections with China and Japan
along the Silk Route. |
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Encyclopaedia
Iranica
is the most
extensive compendium ever conceived on the past and present culture of
the Iranian peoples and their contribution to the broader history of
human civilization and it is a multi-volume, multi-disciplinary work
designed as a major source of information, providing a detailed and
accurate picture of an important world civilization over a span of
several thousand years. |
 | Persepolis
a Virtual Reconstruction - The
magnificent palace of Persepolis serving as the site of world's first
super power, was unique in its architectural design. Now,
the Persepolis3D.com has created a virtual reconstruction of
those great palaces, which is based on the historical and
archaeological documents obtained from the International Iranologists
with the aid of the scholars of the field, to
give the viewers a better sense of the grandeur of that
structure. |
 | Persepolis
Recreated, A magnificent documentary
film with beautiful footages from the most spectacular palace of ancient
Iran-Persepolis, accompanied by 3-dimentional reconstruction of its
remarkable palaces and halls. |
5.
WEB RESOURCES
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ABZU
The comprehensive guide to the Ancient Near East on the Internet. |
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Lexicon
of Iranian Languages (LIL); The Lexicon of Iranian
Languages (LIL) is a project of the Institute of Indology and Tamil
Studies (IITS), University of Cologne.
It contain A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (CPD), Sogdian Dictionary (SD)
and A Word-List of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (WL). |
6.
Cultural News Agencies
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CHN
(Cultural Heritage News Agency) |
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CHTN
(Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism News Agency) |
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ISNA
(Iranian Student News Agency) |
7.
GOOD CAUSES
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MAHAK,
The society for children suffering from cancer. |
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Popli
Khalatbari, A charitable foundation for children's
education & welfare. |
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FCI, The
foundation for the children of Iran. |
8.
MISCELLANEOUS
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Jamshid
& the Lost Mountain of Light,
A novel by Howard Lee. This thrilling adventure is woven-through with
historical detail that recreates the lives, cities, and palaces of
ancient Persia. |
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Encyclopaedia
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