Zoroastrianism was adopted by the Achaemenid Empire, the Parthian Empire, and found its fullest expression under the...
Year: 2020
Introduction Zoroaster (also known as Zarathustra) was an important religious figure in ancient Persia (present-day Iran and...
Evangelicalism ceased being a religious faith tradition when it made a Faustian bargain for the sake of...
Ancient Persia had the same interest in what happens after death as any culture in the present...
The ancient Persian religious tradition was passed down orally, and the only written texts relating to it...
Exploring the evolution of our rights and freedoms and the relevance of the Great Charter today. Introduction...
Magna Carta’s place in modern legal and popular culture and the importance of its 800-year-old symbolism. Introduction...
Progressivism did not attempt to overthrow or replace capitalism, but to constrain and supplement it in order...
Starting in 1297, a small group of particularly wealthy merchants blocked political and economic competition. Abstract International...
A wide-ranging new Getty book examines the role of text and image across cultures over the thousand-year...
Its name is derived from the Persians who settled in the area in the 7th century BCE....
Developments here had a decisive impact on the progress of human history. Introduction Iran, officially the Islamic...
Right-wing demagogues have been trumpeting its key elements of virulent nationalism, racial and religious intolerance, and militarism....
All of the victims whose remains the groups have been searching for are homicide victims of the...
Washington, DC, had never, in its brief and undistinguished history, known a social season like this one....
Jerusalem has been an urban center for approximately 5,000 years. Introduction Jerusalem is the capital of the...
The beginning of Ptolemaic influence in Nubia began when Ptolemy II led a campaign against the kingdom...
We have known about the causes of climate change for a long time. The girl got up...
Researchers have extracted a complete ancient human genome from birch pitch, a 5,700-year-old type of ancient “chewing...
What we really mean when we talk about “animal histories.” “Am I not a fly like thee?...
Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world. Introduction We should start this post with...
Coffeehouses became a spot not just to enjoy a cup but to exchange ideas. Coffee is a...
Education for those behind bars is gaining more attention. In 2020, I’m going to take you to...
The history of jury trials and their relationship to Magna Carta. Introduction From medieval justice to the...
How Magna Carta was both influenced by, and impacted upon, the institutions and customs of its day....
Iran’s traditional music carries messages of beauty, joy, sorrow and love to the world. Introduction Weaving through...
There are silk makers in different parts of Iran who still practice the trade their ancestors did...
Bourbaki was the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. There’s just one problem:...
It severely affected public opinion in favor of war and further energized a war-weary public in England....
The treatment of the military subject in Shakespeare’s Roman plays complicates early modern cultural understandings of the...