Nechemiah ben Chushiel [d. 617] appears in Jewish apocalyptic literature, particularly Sefer Zerubbabel, as a leader connected to the Babylonian exilarchate who is destined to play a crucial role in ...
Glass, Gilding, and Grand Design: Art of Sasanian Iran (224-642) presents masterpieces illustrating the splendor of the court arts of the Sasanian dynasty, which ruled the ancient Near East from the ...
An ancient sculpture illicitly carved from a rock relief in Iran will soon go on display at the British Museum before being repatriated to the National Museum in Tehran. Carved in calcareous limestone ...
Ancient Iran was home to numerous exceptionally powerful kings throughout history. This was particularly so in the era of the ...
A Newly Discovered Administrative Center of the Late Sasanian Empire: Tappe Bardnakoon, Farsan, Iran
The two first seasons of excavation at the large settlement of Tappe Bardnakoon unearthed remarkable archaeological material, in-cluding huge architectural structures, a large corpus of 559 clay ...
Prolegomena : Ancient Iran in the context of world history -- 1. Iran before the Sasanians -- 2. Ardaxšīr I and the establishment of the Sasanian Empire -- 3. Šābuhr I : The strongest world Empire in ...
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The Byzantine Sasanian War of 602 to 628, the forgotten conflict that reshaped the Middle East and opened the door to Islam
This video explores the Byzantine Sasanian War of 602 to 628, a brutal and decisive conflict that nearly destroyed two great empires and reshaped the balance of power in the Middle East. It traces how ...
The Christian community in Tang China managed to survive for as long as the emperors were tolerant of other religions. That changed during the rule of the emperor Wuzong (841-846 CE), who banned all ...
For the first time in a generation, Asia Society presents a major exhibition of artworks from one of the great kingdoms of the ancient Near East and the last great Iranian empire prior to the adoption ...
Propaganda is not what it used to be. These days, a crummy movie like “2000 Mules,” a big cinematic lie about the Big Lie that rampant voter fraud denied the reelection of the last U.S. president, is ...
This conference brings together the leading scholars of the fields of late antique, Sasanian, and early Islamic history in order to study the period of transition – defined broadly as 600-750 CE – in ...
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