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Ancient Iranian
History and Histography
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PRE-ZOROASTRIAN
PERIOD
ZOROASTRIAN
PERIOD (1767 BCE to 651 CE)
POST-ZOROASTRIAN
/ POST-SASANIAN PERIOD
MISCELLANEOUS
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General History |
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Chronological Ancient History of Iran, from 8000 BCE to 640 CE. |
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Prehistory - Proto-Elamite (from 8000BCE) |
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Elamite
Civilisation (3400 - 550
BCE) |
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Median
Dynasty (728 -550 BCE) |
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Cyaxares: Media’s Great King in Egypt, Assyria, and Iran,
by G. Heinsohn |
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Darius
the Mede, by Richard N. Frye |
| Media
and the Median Dynastic Empire, by: Profs.
M. A. Dandamayev and I. Medevedskaya |
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Harpagos,
by: Prof. M. A. Dandamayev |
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Kashtariti,
by Prof. M. Dandamayev |
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King
Fravartish (Phraortes), by I. Medevedskaya |
| Median Dynastic Empire; The Coming of the
Aryans & Creation of the First Iranian Dynastic Empire,
by Dr G. Savoia-Vizzini |
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Medes,
the First (Western) Iranian Kingdom,
By Kh. Rezakhani |
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Urine and the Vine: Astyages' Dreams at Herodotus 1.107-8, by
C. Pelling |
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Achaemenid
Dynasty (550 - 330 BCE) |
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A
Brief History of Persian Empire |
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Achaemenid
Administrative System; Babylonian & Egyptian Documents, by M. A. Dandamayev |
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Achaemenid
Army |
| Achaemenid
Education System, by M. A. Dandamayev |
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Achaemenid
Law, "Dâta", by R. Sshmitt |
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Achaemenid
Military Equipments |
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Achaemenid
Mints (Under Construction) |
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Achaemenians, Zoroastrians in Transition,
by Dr. A. A. Jafari |
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Artaxerxes
(Artakhshatra) Ardashir-e Derâz-Dast |
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Battle
of Gaugamela (the), by: E. Badian |
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Battle of Granicus
(The), by: E. Badian |
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Cyrus
the Great (Collection of articles) |
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Dâtabara,
by Prof. R. Schmitt |
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Egypt
Under the Achaemenids, by E. Bresciani |
| Empire of the
Achaemenid (Hakhâmaneshiyân) Dynasty |
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Ethiopia
under the Achaemenid Dynasty, by Ph. Huyse |
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Hamârakara
(Achaemenid Accountant/Bookkeeper), by M. A. Dandamayev |
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Human Rights and Rise of the Achaemenid Empire: Forgotten Lessons from a Forgotten Era,
by B. Hassani |
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Inscription
of Dariush the Great at Behestun |
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Inscription
of Darius the Great at Naqsh-e- Rostam |
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Iranian
Diaspora, Pre-Islamic Time, by Prof. M. Boyce |
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Median
and Achaemenid Archaeology, by D. Stronach
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New
Trends in Achaemenid History, by P. Briant
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On
The Customs of the Persians, c. 430 BCE,
Herodotus |
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Palestine Under the Persians (539-332 BCE),
by D. F. Graf |
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Persian
Invasion of Greece, by Thomas
Setzer |
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Persian
Invasion of Greece & the Battle of Marathon (The), by T.
Setzer |
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Persians Reject Democracy; Darius the Grate' State Organisation,
Herodotus |
| Persian Syria (538-331): Two Centuries of Persian Rule,
by A. Bounni |
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Persian
Wars, Heodotus |
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Persian
Wars, by Prof. L. C. Stecchini |
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Splendor
of Persia; The Great Kings, by: R.
Payne |
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Story
of Uzahor-Resenet About Emperor Cambujia (Cambyses) |
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Where
was Achaemenid India?, by D. Fleming |
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Xenophon
Anabasis: The Defeat of Ten Thousand Greek Mercenaries in Iran |
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Zoroastrian
Religion under the Achaemenids, by
K. B. Shroff |
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Cyrus The Great
(580-529 BCE) |
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Cyropaedia
of Xenophon; The Life of Cyrus the Great, Xenophon |
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Cyrus
the "Father" and Babylonia, by G. G. Cameron (PDF File) |
| Cyrus
the Great, "The Father and Liberator", by Sh. Suren-Pahlav |
| Cyrus
the Great's Cylinder, Transliteration
& Translation of the Text |
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Cyrus
the Great's Cylinder, The
First World Charter of Human Rights in 530BCE, by Sh.
Suren-Pahlav |
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Cyrus
the Great: The Decree of Return for the Jews 539BCE, The K.
Prism |
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Cyrus
the Great in Icelandic Epics: A literary Study, by J. Jonnsen
(PDF File) |
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First
Declaration of Human Rights (The), by Dr Darius Jahanian |
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Defeat of the Persians under Cyrus the Great, by Queen Tomyris of the
Massagetai; Herodotus |
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Some
Notes on the Characterization of Cyrus the Great in Jewish and Judeo-Persian
Writings, by A. Netzer (PDF File) |
| Tomb
of Cyrus the Great, by A. Zournatzi |
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When
Cyrus the Great was a Boy,
Xenophon |
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Winged Figure of Cyrus the Great (The) |
| Zolqarnain;
Cyrus the Great in Qur'an,
by: B. Khoramshahi |
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Post
Achaemenid Period (Seleucids) - (333 - 248 BCE) |
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Arsacid/Parthian
Dynasty: 248 BCE - 224 CE) |
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Arsacid
Chronology in Traditional History, by Prof. A. Sh. Shahbazi |
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Arsacid
Dynasty of Armenia, by Prof. A. Sh. Shahbazi |
| Battle of
Carrhae (The), by Prof. A.
Sh. Shahbazi |
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Beginnings
of the Arsacids (The), by:
E. J. Bickerman
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Dynasty
of Arsacids, by K. Schippmann |
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Egyptian-Iranian
Relation under the Seleucids & Parthians, by H. Heinen |
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Empire of the
Parthian (Ashkâniân ) Dynasty, by Sha. Suren-Pahlav |
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Education
under the Parthian & Sasanian Dynasties, by A. Tafazzoli |
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General
Surena; the Hero of Carrhae; by
Sh. Suren-Pahlav |
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India's
Parthian Colony On the Origin of the Pallava Empire of Dravidia,
by Dr. S. Abbas |
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Investiture
during the Parthian Dynasty, by Dr. V. Sarkhosh-Curtis |
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Origin
of Arsacids (The), by Prof. A. Sh. Shahbazi |
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Parthian
Army |
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Parthian
Clan of Esfandiar, by Prof. E. Yarshater |
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Parthians
of Armenia; Kamsarakan Family, by C. Toumanoff |
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Roman
Description of the Parthians from Justin's History of the World |
| Statius' Young Parthian King
('Thebaid' 8.286-93) by A. S. Hollis |
| Tirdad and Ardavan - A New Look at the Genealogy of the Early Arsacids,
by Kh. Rezakhani |
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Sasanian
Dynasty (224 CE - 651 CE) |
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The
Empire of the Sasanid (Sâsâniân) Dynasty,
by Dr
G. Savoia-Vizzini |
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An
Overview of the Sasanian Military, by
C. Cornuelle |
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At
the Roots of the Sasanian Royal Imagery: The Persepolis Graffiti;
by: By: P. Callieri |
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Context
and Contents of Priscianus of Lydia's Solutionum ad Chosroem, the
Philosophical discussion at the Sasanian court in 530CE |
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Egypt
Under Sasanians, by R. Altheim-Stiehl |
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Emperor
Ardeshir & the cycle of History,
by
Dr. R. Frye |
| Empress Boran
(Purandokht), by M. L.
Chaumont |
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Enigmatic
relationship of ancient Ural culture with Sasanian dynasty,
by
S.
Kameneva |
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Êwênbed,
The magus and judge of the empire, by Ph. Gignoux |
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Ganj-e
Bâdâvard, by M. Omidsalar |
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Haftvâd,
by Prof.
A. Sh. Shahbazi |
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"Hazârbed"
The Grand Intendant, by R. M. Shayegan |
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Iranian
Etiquette in The Sasanian Period, by Dj. Khaleqi-Motlaq |
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Pêrôz,
by Klaus Schipmann |
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Persians,
the Image in Armenia, by: R. Thomson |
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Reforms
of Chosroes Anushirvan (The Immortal
Soul), by Prof. R. N. Frye |
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Sacral
Kingship in Sasanian Iran, by J.
K. Choksky |
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Sasanian
Army |
| Sasanians in
Africa (The), by M. Compareti |
| Sasanian Irredentism and the Foundation of Constantinople: Historical Truth and Historical Reality,
by D. Frendo |
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Sasanian
Social Class of Dehqân, by Prof. A. Tafazzoli |
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Shapour
I, by Prof. Sh. Shahbazi, |
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Spahbed;
A Sasanian Military Title, by R. Gyselen |
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Yazdegerd
I, by Prof. Sh. Shahbazi |
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Post-Sasanian "Silent Period" (651 CE - 861 CE) |
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General History |
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Chronological
Ancient History of Iran from 8000BCE to CE 651 |
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Ancient
Iranian Kings-List From Elamites to Sasanian Dynasty |
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Chronology
of the Ancient Iran; From Prehistory to the end of Sasanian Dynasty |
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