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The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Ceremonial centers, urbanization and state formation in Southern Mesopotamia
The spectacular development scheme of the Eridu temple is actually is a very valuable set of evidence, not only telling us about archietctural achievements of the Ubaid period in the southern Mesopotamia, but also we will see that it will form some sort of a bridge that connects the architectural and cultic traditions of the Ubaid period, that is the 4th millennium to the 3rd millennium, the following period, called Uruk period, after the massive type site of famous Uruk, in southern Mesopotamian plain, a little bit upstream than Eridu, but still on the ancient course of the Euphrates.
Yazdegerd III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yazdegerd III or Yazdgerd III (also spelled Yazdiger or Yazdigerd , Persian : یزدگرد, "made by God" ) was the twenty-ninth and last king of the Sassanid dynasty of Iran and a grandson of Khosrau II (590–628). His father was Shahryar, whose mother was Miriam, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice . [ 1 ] Yazdegerd III ascended the throne on 16 June 632 after a series of internal conflicts.
Access : Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis : Nature
Barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) and wheat ( Triticum monococcum L. and Triticum turgidum L.) were among the principal ‘founder crops’ of southwest Asian agriculture 1 . Two issues that were central to the cultural transition from foraging to food production are poorly understood.
The Persian Times
The first Elamites settled in the southwestern Iran near the Persian Gulf around 3300 BC.
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The Emergence of Civilizations - Anthro 341
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Main Page
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook has expanded greatly since its creation, and now contains hundred of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net.
Iran, 8000–2000 B.C. | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A universally accepted chronology for the entire ancient Near East remains to be established.Zoroastrianism / ˌ z ɒr oʊ ˈ æ s t r i ə n ɪ z əm / (or Mazdaism) is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of prophet Zoroaster (also known as Zarathustra, in Avestan ) and was formerly among the world's largest religions. [ 1 ] It was probably founded some time before the 6th century BCE in Greater Iran . In Zoroastrianism, the Creator Ahura Mazda is all good, and no evil originates from him.
Zoroastrianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Natural History Highlight - National Museum of Natural History
Map of southwestern Iran showing location of a number of sites that bracket the transition to early herding currently understudy by Smithsonian researchers.
Oriental Institute | Iranian Prehistoric Project
The last two decades of archaeological investigation in the ancient Near East have witnessed the discovery of an increasing number of year-round occupied large sites with no evidence of farming and animal husbandry, as well as sites with evidence of domesticated cereals and/or animals in regions not suspected to be the locus of the domestication of wheat, barley, sheep, and goats. As a result, it is becoming apparent that the prevailing paradigm of the Hilly Flanks of the Fertile Crescent can no longer explain the processes of domestication of animals and plants and the adoption of sedentary village life in the ancient Near East.P> The first modern archaeological work on the Deh Luran plain, the Rice University Projects of 1961 and 1963, excavated the early village site of Tepe Ali Kosh and the later village of Tepe Sabz. The project used systematic sieving techniques to recover all artifacts and animal bones, and water flotation to recover ancient carbonized seeds. Seven cultural phases were defined.
Tepe Ali Kosh in SW Iran (Khuzestan)
Iraq - Map Index
For convenience this Map Index allows direct access to all the dynamic and static maps incorporated in ECAI Iraq.Have you had your Biblical archaeology today?