Studying animal tooling can provide clues to the mysteries of human evolution. Human beings used to be...
History
It is often referenced as a Zoroastrian heresy because it departed significantly from central Zoroastrian beliefs. Introduction...
Zoroastrianism was adopted by the Achaemenid Empire, the Parthian Empire, and found its fullest expression under the...
The ancient Persian religious tradition was passed down orally, and the only written texts relating to it...
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...
Developments here had a decisive impact on the progress of human history. Introduction Iran, officially the Islamic...
Jerusalem has been an urban center for approximately 5,000 years. Introduction Jerusalem is the capital of the...
What we really mean when we talk about “animal histories.” “Am I not a fly like thee?...
Coffeehouses became a spot not just to enjoy a cup but to exchange ideas. Coffee is a...
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...
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....
A number of highly educated citizens could speak and read both Greek and Latin. Introduction The Roman...
Although often engaged in conquest, the Sassanids also entered into peace treaties and engaged in widespread trade....
The Achaemenid Empire was a period of artistic growth that left an extraordinary architectural legacy. Introduction Achaemenid...
Persepolis has a long and complex history, designed to be the central city of the ever expanding...
This period is characterized by major cultural and political changes. Historical Overview During the Early Dynastic period...
The history of transgender and gender nonconforming people in the United States is one of struggle, but...
How knowledge, belief, sex, and power were viewed in the medieval world. Knowledge The way medieval eyes...
A rough genealogy of the way in which the central narrative of Buddhism ended up in a...
During the war, the top “marginal rate” was 94%, but 94% of what? Recent history shows tax...
Marketers decided to focus on the ‘purity’ of factory food processing – a successful strategy that other...
The economic decline was marked by a severe drop in population. By Dr. Murray N. RothbardHistorian and...
Wealthy landowners enclosed (privatized) the commons for their own profits, impoverishing many villagers. By Jay Walljasper Medieval...
By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Regional, inter-regional and international trade was a common feature of the Roman world....
With the stroke of a pen 75 years ago, two men changed the world and sealed the...
Establishing a nation in which the people were sovereign and the aristocracy had no place. The North...
The excised passage was not then without effect and ought not now to be without effect. In...