Ancient Persia

The History of Medicine in Ancient Persia

By Hedieh Ghavidel, Press TV, Tehran The history of medicine in Iran is as old and as rich as its civilization. In the Avesta, science and medicine rise above class, ethnicity, nationality, race, gender and religion. Some of the earliest practices of ancient Iranian medicine have been documented in the Avesta and other Zoroastrian religious texts. ...

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Achaemenid Persia

Introduction. Persia is an alternate, though unofficial name for the country of Iran, its people, its art and its ancient empire. The early Persians were one of several Aryan tribes that settled in the Iranian plateau. The Persians settled into the southern region of the plateau, while the Medes occupied the north western portion. Herodotus tells u...

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Women in Ancient Persia, 559–331 BC

Questia. Book by Maria Brosius; Clarendon Press,1998, 260 pgs. This book discusses Greek attitudes towards the royal women of the Achaemenid court ( 559-331 BC). It also attempts to look at the position of royal and non-royal women from a Near Eastern view point by examining the evidence of the Fortification texts from Persepolis and Neo-Babylonian...

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Cyrus Takes Babylon: The Verse Account

The question what Nabonidus was doing in TemÃ- will probably remain unsolved for ever. From the following text, we may deduce that during his life time, there were strong rumors that the king suffered from a mental illness and proposed a religious reform (preferring the Moon god Sin to all other gods). These rumors were used by the author of theVer...

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Iran Chamber Society: When Persia became Iran

In 1935 the Iranian government requested those countries which it had diplomatic relations with, to call Persia "Iran," which is the name of the country in Persian. The suggestion for the change is said to have come from the Iranian ambassador to Germany, who came under the influence of the Nazis. At the time Germany was in the grip of racial fever...

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WWW-VL History Index - Iran

List of research tools about the study of Iran...

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Iran - Achaemenid Dynasty; 550-330BCE

Iran - Achaemenid (HakhÃ-maneshiyÃ-n) Dynasty; 550-330BCE...

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Persian Empire, Persepolis

The early history of man in Iran goes back well beyond the Neolithic period, it begins to get more interesting around 6000 BC, when people began to domesticate animals and plant wheat and barley. The number of settled communities increased, particularly in the eastern Zagros mountains, and handmade painted pottery appears. Throughout the prehistori...

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