The posting below by Bruno Jacobs’ discussion on Achaemenid Rule in the Caucasus was originally published in the Encyclopedia Iranica on August 15, 2006. Kindly note that the pictures/illustrations and their accompanying descriptions do not appear in the original Encyclopedia Iranica article. ========================================================================= Achaemenid rule in the Caucasus region was established, at the latest, in the […]
A little known fact of the aviation history of helicopters is the record flight taken by an Iranian army Bell 214 helicopter with respect to (a) altitude and (b) time to height categories. The reports of these achievements were reported in the Flight International Journal (March, 9, 1975). Below is the page from the Flight […]
Palgrave-Macmillan Publications in London and New York, which is a major international academic venue for scholarly works, has just published a seminal book entitled: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, London & New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015 The book has been edited by Edited by Dr. Immanuel Ness, Dr. Zak Cope with the Senior Editorial Advising […]
The article below by S. Acharya and D.M. Murdock was originally published in the Truth be Known Website. Kindly note that several pictures and all captions for pictures featured below are different from the original article posted in the Truth be Known website. ========================== “Both Mithras and Christ were described variously as ‘the Way,’ ‘the […]
The Fezana Journal has published an article by Kaveh Farrokh on the ancient Yalda festival of Iran: Farrokh, K. (2015). Yalda: an enduring legacy from ancient Persia. Fezana Journal (Publication of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America), Vol. 29, No.3, Fall/September, pp. 30-33. The article begins as thus: “The annual Iranian festival of […]
