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	Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
		While each of these specializations offers its own options, all require a common core of 13 half-year courses, insuring that all graduates will share a basic grounding in biblical Hebrew and related languages, the background and methods of modern biblical scholarship, and in the history of biblical Israel in its ancient Near Eastern context.
		Emphasis will focus on the material culture of various periods and the applicability of archaeological evidence to the reconstruction of the history of the ancient Near East.
		Hebrew Bible, study of ancient Israel, ancient Mesopotamia, history of the ancient Near East.
	www.gsas.harvard.edu /programs/degree/nelc.html

	Kashan -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Kashan is an ancient city; 2 miles (3 km) southwest is the site of prehistoric Tepe Sialk, which yielded the most ancient remains of settled life so far found on the Iranian...
		Kashan is an ancient city; 2 miles (3 km) southwest is the site of prehistoric Tepe Sialk, which yielded the most ancient remains of settled life so far found on the Iranian plateau.
		It lies in a desert at the eastern foot of the Central Iranian Range, on a once-important caravan route.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044790 (352 words)

	Archaeological News Archive, Year 2000
		Iranian archaeologists have recently found ruins of buildings belonging to the era of the ancient Aryans, some 3,500 years old, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported Saturday.
		Iranian archaeological officials report that they have discovered an ancient Achaemenid inscription in cuneiform which they have dated to ca.
		Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/archaeological_news_archive_2000.htm (352 words)

	Jerusalem Post Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
		Pirnazar, who obtained her doctorate from UCLA in Iranian studies with an emphasis in Judeo-Persian writing, said she formed the House of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts in 2000 after a significant number of Iranian Jews in Southern California expressed their interest in learning more about these ancient texts.
		Ancient language comes alive for Iranian Jews in L.A. By It took Iranian Jews in the United States nearly three decades in exile from the land their ancestors called home for 2,700 years to appreciate the rich history and culture preserved in their literature.
		Ancient language comes alive for Iranian Jews in L.A. Background: A legacy of 'not forgetting'
	www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127614776341&p=1008596975996 (352 words)

	Architecture of Iran, Iranian Architecture
		Beauty for ancient Iranians, like for any other ancient civilizations, was an attribute of the divine.
		Iranians focused their efforts on reviving their own heritage of architecture like barrel vaulting, crenellated roofs, conical squinches, big bricks, oval arches, etc. Brickworks in the form of different motifs and sometimes plasterworks over bricks were characteristics of the architecture of the early post-Islam period.
		In Iranian art, both lightness and clarity are sought and, conversely, the obscure and confused are avoided.
	www.destinationiran.com /Architecture.htm (1473 words)

	Ancient philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.
		In the east, Indian philosophy begins with the Vedas where questions related to laws of nature, the origin of the universe and the place of man in it are asked.
		Buddhist philosophy arose in India but contributions to it were made in China, Japan, and Korea also.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_philosophy (495 words)

	Persian
		Iranian languages are applied to a group of inter-related languages which only from linguistic point of view, share common characteristics, and not in terms of geographical and political borders.
		It comes from the adjective `ariya - raman' IRANIAN LANGUAGE Iranian languages are applied to a group of inter-related languages which only from linguistic point of view, share common characteristics, and not in terms of geographical and political borders.
		Text: The term "Iran" is derived from three separate words throughout the history of the Farsi language: From the middle Farsi word `Eran'; from the ancient Farsi word `Ariya', and from the Avesta Farsi word `Airya', which itself is derived from the ancient Persian word `Arya'.
	imp.lss.wisc.edu /~aoliai/languagepage/iranianlanguages.htm (388 words)

	Iranian Calendar
		Another historical fact corroborates the existence of an ancient solar calendar among Iranians during that period.
		Although the paper is mainly interested in the astronomical background of the Iranian calendar, historical aspects are not overlooked and, in particular, Section 6 presents a brief note regarding the history of the reform led by Khayyâm.
		In particular, the true value of the length of the year in the Iranian calendar should be emphasized, since nowadays there is a widespread confusion between the concepts of the modern ``tropical'' year and the vernal-equinox year upon which the Iranian calendar is based.
	wwwusr2.obspm.fr /~heydari/divers/ir-cal-eng.html (10065 words)

	Additional Reading (from art and architecture, Iranian) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		This name is used also to describe later periods in which artists looked for their inspiration to this ancient style.
		The art of the ancient Greeks and Romans is called classical art.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=37856 (10065 words)

	News Reports about Parthia
		An Iranian historian Vesta Sarkhosh speculated the statue was built in the reign of Orod ii some 38-57 B.C. A replica of the statue, a sample of the advanced stage of the metal works industry in ancient Iran, was displayed in the 7,000 years of Iranian arts exhibition in Europe.
		In ancient times, Iranian men also wore cosmetics.
		Iranian archeologists are seeking for public funding to explore the ruins of a vast urban citadel, left from the Parthian dynasty (247 B.C.-226 A.D.), in Khorasan Province, east of Iran.
	www.parthia.com /parthia_news.htm (10065 words)

	Iran Chamber Society
		This section covers the historic events, history of ancient Iran (Persia), birth of the Iranian (Persian) Empires, ancient Imperial Armies, historic inscriptions, Greek and Arab invasions, Iranian identity challenges, Mongolian invasion, rebirth of Imperial Iranian dynasties, Persian Gulf and its history.
		Iranian old scripts and their fonts, museums, galleries, cuisines and their recipes, rituals, religions, Persian carpet, architecture and many more are covered here as well.
		Iranian all times personalities are covered here as well as Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran, education, higher education, universities in Iran, Iranian people and tribes.
	www.iranchamber.com (10065 words)

	Archaeological News Archive, 2001
		Ancient Iranian Homeland (Central Asian) stone artifact animates archeologists
		Site of Medieval Settlement Unearthed in former Iranian Province of D�gest�n
		Ancient Bathhouse in Yazd Province Was Converted Into Museum
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/archaeological_news_archive_2001.htm (10065 words)

	Language Family Information for the Numbers List
		Meroitic was the language of Meroe, an ancient kingdom south of Egypt.
		Modern Egyptian does not descend from Ancient Egyptian but from Arabic.
		Ardhamagadhi, one of the post-Sanskrit dialects or Prakrits, is the language of the Jain scriptures.
	www.zompist.com /families.htm (10065 words)

	Language Family Information for the Numbers List
		Meroitic was the language of Meroe, an ancient kingdom south of Egypt.
		Modern Egyptian does not descend from Ancient Egyptian but from Arabic.
		Ardhamagadhi, one of the post-Sanskrit dialects or Prakrits, is the language of the Jain scriptures.
	www.zompist.com /families.htm (10065 words)

	OI: Resources: by Musical Culture-Area
		The Ancient Chinese Ritual Music as it is preserved in Korea ---an introduction to Ah-Ahk.
		Music of the Ancient Near East ---an interesting monograph covering 3500--500 BC, a good overview of the subject.
		Quantifying Ritual: Political Cosmology, Courtly Music, and Precision Mathematics in Seventeenth-Century China ---a paper concerning ritual music and the contributions of Zhu Zaiyu, the discoverer of equal temperament.
	members.fortunecity.com /odradek5/resources/culture2.html (10065 words)

	UCLA Humanities WWW Course Links Database
		Meta-site (A List of Lists): An index of resources for the study of ancient mesopotamia, including the territory under the control of the modern state of Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria, and Turkey.
		Meta-site (A List of Lists): Index of Resources for the study of Ancient Egypt, including the territory under the control of the modern states of Egypt, Sudan, and part of Libya.
		Meta-site (A List of Lists): IASPM is an international society for the interdisciplinary study of popular music, with branch societies in many countries.
	ecompass.humnet.ucla.edu /e-compass/courses/title.html (9656 words)

	1Up Science > Links Directory >Social Sciences:Language and Linguistics:Natural Languages:Indo-European:Indo-Iranian:Iranian
		Sogdian is a Western branch member of the Indo-Iranian subgroup of the Indo-European language family formerly spoken in ancient Sogdiana along the upper Zeravshan river.
		An Iranian language spoken in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and - to a lesser extent, in neighboring Central Asian countries.
		Sogdian's grammar preserved a number of features from ancient inflected Proto-Indo-European language including the specific trait of losing or preserving the ending depending on the length of stem vowels.
	www.1upscience.com /links/desc-3369.html (9656 words)

	EVIL IN ANCIENT IRANIAN RELIGIONS - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		In the ancient Iranian religious world evil was a fact, a condition of existence, as is apparent not only in so-called "orthodox Zoroastrianism" but also in Zurvanism and the various mystery religions and gnostic tendencies connected with it, notably Mithraism and Manicheism.
		Evil in its various manifestations was an almost constant obsession in Zoroastrianism and ancient Iranian religions in general, exercising an influence even beyond the natural boundaries of the Iranian world.
		The ancient divinities repudiated by Zoroaster, the equivalents of such Indian gods as Indra, Saurva, and Nåηhaiθya (opposed respectively to the Ameša Spəntas Aša, Xšaθra, and Ârmaiti), seem partly to personify negative forces in relation to morality, the cult, and the prescriptions dictated by the norms of purity of the natural elements.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/cosmology/evil.htm (8997 words)

	SALT made the world go round [ETYMOLOGY]
		An ancient civilisation's vocabulary, and possibly a population's resulting behaviour was drastically influenced by the references to the precarious supply, trading, consumption, and possession of salt.
		the Old Persian/Old Iranian word for shekel appears in Elamite texts, where it
		Another chemical, similar to salt but less useful, known to the ancient world was soda or natron (Na2CO3, sodium carbonate) which was obtained from natural deposits such as those of the Wadi Natron in Egypt.
	salt.org.il /etymol.html (8997 words)

	sanskrit2
		Some of the shared words however are not really Iranian in origin as claimed today but are loan words into Iranian from the ancient languages of Iran like Elamite and early Dravidian which again share many words with early Uralic languages especially with Hungarian.
		Even though Hungarian belongs to the Uralic languages, Hungarian shares more than the Indo-European languages with ancient Iranic tongues of which (Indo-Aryan) Sanskrit is but one derivative.
		These are from the oldest strata of the language indicating that it was learned while the Iranians' ancestors had not yet left eastern Europe for Asia.
	member.melbpc.org.au /~tmajlath/sanskrit2.html (8997 words)

	Hafiz and the Place of Iranian Culture in the World
		I must thank His Excellency the Iranian Minister, Lord Lamington and the members of the Society for having done me the honour of inviting me tonight to bring before you the importance to the whole world of those spiritual forces that the ancient land of Iran has cherished in her modern history.
		Critics of Iranian civilisation and culture have said that after Hafiz the light was not only dimmed but burned out.
		I think there is no one of Iranian race alive today who has not at some time or other — in difficulty, sorrow and misery, or in joy and triumph — turned to his national hero for comfort or further elation.
	www.amaana.org /sultweb/msmhafiz.htm (8997 words)

	Iranian peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ancient Iranian peoples populated the Iranian plateau (for example Medes, Persians, Bactrians, and Parthians), and the steppes north of the Black Sea (for example Scythians, Sarmatians, and Alans) by the 1st millennium BCE.
		The Iranian Peoples of the Caucasus, Routledge Curzon
		Iranian cultural influences have also been significant in Central Asia where Turkic invaders are believed to have largely mixed with native Iranian peoples of which only the Tajik remain, in terms of language usage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_peoples (2909 words)

	Iranian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some Iranian authors use the term "Iranian languages" in a looser, non-linguistic sense, including all languages spoken by people who regard themselves as part of the Iranian nation, or by ancient peoples whose cultures Iranians today regard as part of their national heritage.
		The Old Iranian languages began to break off and evolve separately as the various Iranian tribes migrated and settled in vast areas of southeastern Europe, the Iranian plateau, and Central Asia.
		Iranian Languages after the Arab Conquest of Persia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_languages (1052 words)

	Flag (English)
		The second theory is based upon the fact that the ancient Iranian religion, Mitraism, would regard the sun as sacred.
		Iranians, therefore, chose to have the sun on their flag and coins to glorify their magnificent culture.
		The first reference to Iranian flag can be traced back to a mythological mutiny launched by Kawah, the blacksmith, against Zohak, the notoriously tyrant ruler of the time.
	www.farhangsara.com /flag.htm (1052 words)

	History on Podium: Older Than The Egyptian Civilization
		The global expansion of the languages of ancient Iranians is one of the important reasons proving that Iran was the Cradle Land, from where the immigrants spread their languages throughout the world.
		The existence of large reserves of clay all throughout the Iranian Plateau and the archeological discoveries relating the first man-made pottery objects to the land of Iran are a strong evidence for the invention of this craft by Iranians.
		The highest possibility is that between a million and 500,000 years ago, men have entered the Iranian Plateau from Africa, beginning a new life in the meadows of southern Iran, adjacent to the frozen mountain ranges of Alborz and Zagros.
	www.iranchamber.com /podium/history/030218_older_than_egyptian.php (2152 words)

	Indus Valley Civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike other ancient civilizations, the archaeological record of the Indus civilization provides practically no evidence of armies, kings, slaves, social conflict, prisons, and other oft-negative traits that we traditionally associate with early civilization, although this could simply be due to the sheer completeness of its collapse and subsequent disappearance.
		There were Indus civilization settlements spread as far south as Mumbai, as far east as Delhi, as far west as the Iranian border, and as far north as the Himalayas.
		It should be remembered that Indus civilization people, like all peoples in South Asia, built their lives around the monsoon, a weather pattern in which the bulk of a year's rainfall occurs in a four-month period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization (3486 words)

	History of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are records of numerous ancient and technologically advanced civilizations on the Iranian plateau before the arrival of Aryan tribes from the north, many of whom are still unknown to historians today.
		Modern Iranian (Persian) history began with the Constitutional Revolution of Iran against the Shah (who remained in power) in 1905, the granting of a limited constitution in 1906 (making the country a constitutional monarchy), and the discovery of oil in 1908.
		The fatwa was cited in an official statement by the Iranian government at an August 2005 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Iran (3480 words)

	Elam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The later Neo-Elamite period is characterized by a significant migration of Iranians to the Iranian plateau.
		In the Old Elamite period, it consisted of kingdoms on the Iranian plateau, centered in Anshan, and from the mid-2nd millennium BC, it centered in Susa in the Khuzestan lowlands.
		This pressure of immigrating Iranians pushed the Elamites of Anshan towards Susa, so that in the course of this period, Susiana became known as Elam, while Anshan and the Iranian plateau, the original home of the Elamites, were renamed Persia proper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elamite_Empire (3259 words)

	Category:Iranian peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ancient tribes affiliated with Iranian peoples vary in terms of what is known about their background, while modern groups are defined by their linguistic affiliation.
		A core group of Iranian peoples exist, while other groups are either assumed to be putatively descended from them or have some unknown affiliation.
		Some of these groups, such as the Mountain Jews and the Hazara, are either entirely or predominantly descended from non-Iranian peoples.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Iranian_peoples (159 words)

	Iranian People
		An Iranian was called Persian in the English language prior to 1936, but the people of Iran has always used the name Iranian for themselves from the ancient times onward.
		Aryans (Indo-Iranians) are a branch of the Indo-European peoples.
		Iranian peoples are peoples who speak an Iranian language and/or belong to the Iranian stock.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/105/iranian-people.html (595 words)

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