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Norouz visitors at Arg-e Bam

Edit Irna 04 Apr 2016
IRNA – Kerman - The Arg-e Bam (Bam Citadel‎‎), the largest adobe building in the world, hosted Norouz visitors during New Year holidays as seen in the photo. The construction of the citadel located in Bam, a city in the Kermān Province and on the Silk Road, is traced back to the Achaemenid period (6th to 4th centuries BC) and even beyond ... ....

Artefact not to be sniffed at (+ video)

Edit Otago Daily Times 03 Apr 2016
Previous .. Next.  . Seldom does one come across an ancient Cyrus cylinder while delving through a second-hand goods sale ... "I'm just curious to see what it says,'' he said. The original Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, containing Akkadian cuneiform script which praises Persia's Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great, sets out his genealogy and portrays him as a king from a line of kings ... "It's a very good replica ... ....

Artefact not to be sniffed at

Edit Otago Daily Times 01 Apr 2016
Previous .. Next.  . Seldom does one come across an ancient Cyrus cylinder while delving through a second-hand goods sale ... "I'm just curious to see what it says,'' he said. The original Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, containing Akkadian cuneiform script which praises Persia's Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great, sets out his genealogy and portrays him as a king from a line of kings ... "It's a very good replica ... ....

In 'Francofonia,' The Ugly Collision Of Art And War

Edit National Public Radio 01 Apr 2016
i. Johanna Korthals Altes and Vincent Nemeth in Francofonia. Courtesy of Music Box Films hide caption. toggle caption Courtesy of Music Box Films. Johanna Korthals Altes and Vincent Nemeth in Francofonia. Courtesy of Music Box Films. "Who needs France without the Louvre? Or Russia without the Hermitage?" ... Wandering through the Louvre's colonial plunder, Sokurov ponders the lost worlds of Egypt and Assyria, but ultimately finds his way home....

Sirkap –Taxila’s ancient metropolis

Edit Dawn 20 Mar 2016
The ancient city of Sirkap was once a thriving ancient metropolis, complete with streets, houses, shops and places of worship. Stairs made in the Grecian style, leading to one of the legendary city’s of ancient Buddhist civilisation ... like a gridiron ... A.G ... Apollonius – 44 AD – drew a parallel between the planning of Sirkap and that of Athens during his travels, and said it was the size of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria ... ....

10 Failed Attempts To Create State Cults Or Religions

Edit ListVerse 19 Mar 2016
History is full of secular dictators who have erected religious systems to justify their rule, from the Juche cult of the Kim dynasty in North Korea to Papa Doc’s exploitation of Voodoo in Haiti. This is a venerable tradition, stretching back to the imperial cults of Rome, Egypt, and Assyria. But even with the power […]. The post 10 Failed Attempts To Create State Cults Or Religions appeared first on Listverse. > ... ....

162 monuments identified in Achaemenid Royal Road

Edit Irna 17 Mar 2016
Tehran, March 17, IRNA – Exploration of the first chapter of the Achaemenid Royal Road in Susa of Persepolis has led to identification of 162 archeological sites, it was announced here Wednesday ... ....

Mideast Iraq Antiquities

Edit The Oklahoman 14 Mar 2016
Assyria was a civilization located near the modern-day city of Mosul, now held ......

Conflict is Life and Listening is Living

Edit Huffington Post 10 Mar 2016
The following is taken from a homily given in Christ Chapel, on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College (St ... The Book of Isaiah is, in many ways, a narrative about the realities of conflict, as it accounts for a number of complex confrontations, such as, the defeat of King Uzziah's coalition, the Syro-Ephraimite skirmish, the struggle between Assyria and Judah, as well as Hezekiah's rebellion against Senacherib ... Amen ... ....

Truncheons and tear gas... France goes extra mile so refugees can feel at home

Edit Belfast Telegraph 05 Mar 2016
In this volatile world, it's heartwarming to see the effort the French authorities went to this week in demolishing the tents and living quarters of refugees in Calais ... Share Go To ... "And the people who did flee from the land of Assyria, and hath no homes, did build a church from all that lay around so that they may seek hope in the word of the Lord, and Jesus did come among them and knock it down with a bulldozer." ... We're mugs, we are ... ....

Dulwich Hamlet rally round for refugees with charity friendly

Edit The Guardian 02 Mar 2016
• Non-league side face FC Assyria in latest community venture ... The Isthmian League side have arranged the match against FC Assyria, a side largely comprising Assyrian players of Iraqi descent, to raise funds for the Southwark Refugee Forum and the British Red Cross Syria appeal ... FC Assyria was set up in the late 1960s to represent the ......

"Heart of an Empire: Herzfeld's Discovery of Pasargadae" (Freer Gallery of Art)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Feb 2016
Before his untimely death in 530 BCE, the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great laid the foundation of the ancient world's first empire in his birthplace, Anshan (Parsa), in southwestern Iran. In 539 BCE, he chose Pasargadae as the heart of his multilingual, multifaith empire and transformed it into a magnificent symbol of Achaemenid power....

Introduction to the Book of Jonah

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Photo (c) by stock.xchng user bschwehn. When most people think about the Book of Jonah in the Bible, they think about a man being swallowed by a whale. That certainly is an incredible story and a central component of the book. However, it's not the main thing ... Author ... Date ... However, the Assyrian Empire was beginning to assert itself during this time period -- a fact that was significant given that Nineveh was Assyria's major city....
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