Greek sources, starting with Herodotus, marvelled about the Persian royal roads and the
speed of travel and communication they permitted within the vast Achaemenid expanse …

The Middle Elamite period is especially represented at Tall-e Malyan, the ancient city of
Anshan, in the Operation EDD where a large burned building with a central courtyard …

Nous présentons ici six textes (1 à 6) a caractère hémérologique, aussi partiellement
littéraire concernant les jours cruciaux ou redo du calendrier babylonien. La plupart de ces …

Like other bronze objects from Elam (the statue of queen Napir-asu, 1 the “bronze aux
guerriers”, 2 the “barrière de bronze” 3 and the model commonly called Sit šamši4), the …

Tutta la vita, quotidiana, è dominata dal mistero, ogni atto umano non si sa come avrà
esito!... C'è sempre un'incognita, e questo è il lievito della religione1. osì annotava a mano …

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AWE 14 (2015) 51-71 PERSEPOLITAN CEREMONIES: THE CASE OF MEHRGĀN* ALI …

Calendrical systems in pre-Islamic Iran are surveyed here with particular emphasis on the
use of calendrics in divination and astrology. The month names of the Old Persian calendar …

The word civilization takes us back, etymologically speaking, to a phase in the development
of human society that was characterized by the domestication of plants and animals, and in …

This volume has been compiled in honour of Professor Margaret Cool Root of the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor and celebrates her remarkable work. Margaret established a …

This paper aims to more sharply define–and perhaps even redefine–the notion of" context"
in research on written texts of Antiquity (particularly inscriptions) where a situation of …