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Octagonal Christian Church from 4th Century AD Uncovered in Armenia

Ancient Origins 15 Oct 2024
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Octogonal Churches and Eary Christian Symbolism ... These early missionary efforts were met with both acceptance and resistance, as Armenia was a crossroads between powerful pagan empires such as Persia and Rome.
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Leuren Moret: Ancient Iranian bloodlines have controlled the world for 5,000 years

The Exposé 04 Oct 2024
“I discovered it’s a very very interesting history of ancient Iranian tribes, the original Zoroastrians and the First World Persian Empire that has controlled the world for the last 5,000 years,” she said ... Persia is roughly modern-day Iran.
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The new co-op roguelike from the Dead Cells team launches this month, and there's an ...

Games Radar 03 Oct 2024
Meanwhile, the action roguelike from fellow Dead Cells shepherd Evil Empire is already out and in early access. It's also a Prince of Persia spin-off published by Ubisoft, and per our Rogue Prince of ...
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THE LOST CITY OF SIMHAPURA

Dawn 29 Sep 2024
This golden age of the Kushans eventually saw its end in the middle of the 4th century, when the Sassanian Empire of Persia defeated the Kushans, annexed much of their territory and reduced them to mere vassals.
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Johann von Leers: ‘Judaism and Islam as Opposites’ (1942), by Alexander Jacob

The Unz Review 25 Sep 2024
Jewry would then have been able to unleash for their own benefit all those native military and political powers of the Arabian people with which the first caliphs established their powerful empire.
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History of the birth of chess in India and its world wide proliferation

The Siasat Daily 24 Sep 2024
As old as human history ... A form of Chaturanga made its way to Europe by way of Persia, the Byzantine empire and then the emerging Arab world ... Chess was a popular game during the Ottoman empire and chess sets were given as gifts to visiting dignitaries.
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Will Afghanistan learn from its past?

The News International 23 Sep 2024
Afghan Taliban standing in a line with their weapons. — AFP/File ... Nazo Tokhi and Malala of Maiwand ... He drove the Iranians away from Kandahar, leading to the establishment of the Afghan Empire in Persia by his son, Mehmood Khan ... He can be reached at. ... .
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The Prince of Persia Metroidvania adds a skin from the Prince of Persia roguelike: "Please, ...

Games Radar 13 Sep 2024
2024 has marked quite a comeback for Prince of Persia, with two excellent releases in The Lost Crown and The Rogue Prince of Persia ... Evil Empire, the dev studio behind The Rogue Prince of Persia, joked in response to the reveal.
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Thespians: The Forgotten Heroes of the Battle of Thermopylae

Greek Reporter 11 Sep 2024
700 Thespians fought and died at Thermopylae but they are often overshadowed by the Spartans and forgotten. Credit. Jona Lendering / Wikimedia Commons CC0 ... In the summer of 480 BC, King Xerxes I of the Achaemenid Empire (Persia) invaded Greece ... ....
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Seleucids: The Rivals of Cleopatra’s Dynasty

Greek Reporter 07 Sep 2024
The Antigonids ruled Macedon and most of Greece, the Ptolemies ruled Egypt, and the Seleucids ruled the larges slice of the empire consisting of the Near Eastern territories in Syria, Mesopotamia (Iraq), Persia (Iran), and Bactria (Afghanistan).
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New Revelations Emerge About Pristine ‘Saltmen’ Mummies Site

Ancient Origins 05 Sep 2024
Eight mummified Saltmen have been unearthed from this site to date, most of them from the Achaemenid period, an era when Persia’s vast empire stretched from Egypt in the west to the Indus River Valley in the east ... The Plurality of the Persian Empire.
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Why Didn’t Alexander the Great Conquer Rome?

Greek Reporter 04 Sep 2024
One of Philip’s primary goals was to unite the Greek city-states under Macedonian hegemony and lead them in revenge against the Persian Empire, which had invaded Greece earlier in the 5th century BC (notably during the Greco-Persian Wars).
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Final screams of mummified miners frozen in time for 2,500 years

Metro UK 04 Sep 2024
But the wider context gleaned from these mummies and other artifacts, alongside distant evidence elsewhere of salt taxes and storage across in Persia’s far-flung empires, they argued, ‘may indicate institutional involvement’.
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Disturbing images of the

The Daily Mail 04 Sep 2024
Fortunately, the researchers had better luck excavating evidence from the mine's more recent history, during the age of Persia's great empires.
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Jewish kingdoms outside Israel – Part 2 - Israel Today

Israel Today 01 Sep 2024
The Khazar Empire extended across regions in Asia between the Crimean Peninsula, the Caucasus, and the Caspian Sea ... Its geographical position between the Arab-Muslim Empire and the Christian Byzantine Empire was strategically advantageous.

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Jammu and Kashmir Police and officals of Revenue department destroys illegally cultivated Poppy on a patch of land at Parigam 35 kms in south kashmir's Pulwama district on Thursday 19, May 2016.The jammu and kashmir Police has identified several hectares of land in Kashmir villages that will be destroyed over a month tenure. A kilogram of such poppy husk sells for $ 16 - 25 (1000-1500 INR) in the local markets and the cultivation of poppy is banned under state law. Opium cultivation in Kashmir has shown significant increase over the past few years according to Excise and Taxation officials. Large stacks of land are coming under the cultivation with derivatives mostly landing with drug and narcotic suppliers across India. Every year government officials clear such plantation.
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