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Between 550 and 520 BC Cyrus the Great had unified the Medes and the Persians and founded an empire that stretched from the Indus River to North Africa and from the Aral Sea to the Persian Gulf. Professor Richard Frye, of Iranian Studies, Harvard University, in the foreword to Iran Seven Faces of Civilization, describes […]
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Achaemenid-era objects discovered in western Iran
February 8th, 2021 
Awake Goy TEHRAN- Iranian authorities have confiscated 18 prehistoric objects, which are estimated to date back to Achaemenid times, from three smugglers in Delfan county, western province of Lorestan, a senior police official has announced. The objects were recovered during a police inspection after a passing car attracted suspicion at a local checkpoint, IRNA quoted Mohammad Mahdian-Nasab […]
