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5,000-Year Innovation: Ancient Windcatchers That Cooled the Persian Desert

Long before electricity, the people of ancient Persia engineered towering windcatchers, structures that funneled desert air ...
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Persia ancient Iran and the classical world edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole

The Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BC -- Map -- Time Line of Achaemenid Kings -- Persia Before the Persians / Timothy Potts -- Shifting Identities in Pre-Achaemenid Iran: Elamites, Medes, and Persians / ...
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A walk through the Iranian heavens spherical and non-spherical cosmographic models in the imagination of ancient Iran and its neighbors Antonio Panaino

This book by Antonio Panaino discusses the development of the Iranian cosmographical world and its interaction with the Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic civilizations. By undertaking such a study, the ...
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Ancient tides may have sparked humanity’s first urban civilization

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...