Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He e...Lasīt vairāk
The spirit of feasting in Islamic lands as seen in art and material cultureThis catalog represents the first occasion that the burgeoning knowledge of food culture in this period has been employed to inform our understandin...Lasīt vairāk
The Seleucid Empire presided over one of the most pivotal and creative periods of Iranian history, a fact that has often been elided or misunderstood in both ancient and modern historiography. Iran and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern Histo...Lasīt vairāk
Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He e...Lasīt vairāk
Of profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is virtually unknown today, except as a counterpoint to the Roman Empire. In this highly readable history, Touraj Daryaee fills a significant gap in our knowledge of world history. He e...Lasīt vairāk
The Sasanian Empire was one of the most significant empires of late antiquity. As the dominant force in the Middle East, spanning Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, the Sasanian kings from Ardashir I (224CE) ruled an imperial, centrally administrated, mul...Lasīt vairāk
Dealing with the history of Iran is a challenge for many reasons. Iran is a term with different meanings through the ages. Today, it refers to the boundaries of modern Iran, but historically and culturally it covers a much larger territory. The w...Lasīt vairāk
The title of the King of the Seven Climes, used by Khusro I in the sixth century CE, suggests the most ambitious imperial vision that one would find in the literary tradition of the ancient Iranian world. Taking this as a point of departure, the pres...Lasīt vairāk
Classicists, Orientalists, and other scholars present the lectures they delivered for a 2014 seminar series at Oxford University on Sasanian Iran in the context of Late Antiquity. They cover the numismatic legacy of the Sasanians in the East; Per...Lasīt vairāk
The Book is full text on the rules and views of the games of chess and backgammon comes from a Pahlavi text, reported to be from the time of Khusro Anushirvan in the 6th CE....Lasīt vairāk
Specialists in coins of ancient Iran and neighboring regions present papers in honor of numismatic curator Michael L. Bates. Their topics include ancient Iranian stamp seals in the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, four consecutive local governors of...Lasīt vairāk
One of the most influential civilizations in antiquity was that of the Iranian world. The disparate peoples of ancient Iran were remarkable in that their imperial histories proved to be of enduring significance not only for the region from the Oxus t...Lasīt vairāk
