OBJECTIVES From the ancient era, emergence of Agriculture in the connecting region of Mesopotamia and the Iranian plateau at the foothills of the Zagros Mountains, made Iranian gene pool as an important source of populating the region. It has differentiated the population spread and different language groups. In order to trace the maternal genetic affinity between Iranians and other populations...

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. This phrase, attributed to Sun Tzu in his book “The Art of War”, is a strong recommendation for generals to analyse a combat scenario before actually engaging in combat. This analysis can be understood to require some form of game analysis. In this paper we will discuss whether it is ...

due to its unique features derived from ancient iranian history and culture, ferdowsi’s shahnameh has captured the attention of all iranian social classes including the folk. the interest of the folk in the shahnameh can be witnessed in the common proverbs they use. the hemistiches, couplets and themes of this great masterpiece used as proverbs, or the proverbs including allusions to the epic s...

for the first time, it is mentioned in the interpretation of muqātil bin sulayman that: ‘nadr ibn al-harith, who was familiar with the traditions of ancient iran, claimed that the qur’an contained ‘legends of the ancients’; i.e. stories like those of rostam and esfandiyār. following muqātil, commentators often quoted this view, associating and translating ‘legends of the ancients’ with and into...

research shows that ancient iranians were among the pioneers of medical science, and are therefore admired and praised by non-iranian scholars for their efforts and accomplishments in this field. investigations of medical and historical texts indicate that between the 10(th) and the 18(th) century a.d., ancient iran experienced a golden age of medicine. great physicians such as rhazes, al-ahwaz...

The first edition of the London Postgraduate Conference for Ancient Near East (LPCANE) took place on 1st and 2nd December 2018 at British Museum in London. It bore title Lives, New Stories: Current Research East, which aimed to highlight how new research approaches can shed light hotly debated topics past open avenues research. Aimed graduate students (Master’s PhD) early career researchers, pr...

1. introduction one of the features of oral poetry in aryan-indo-european tribes is the usage of epithets in their epic and religious works. after conducting research in oral poetry in yugoslavia and comparing results with literary features of iliad and odyssey, researchers concluded that these epithets along with the name of characters are based on formulas. homer had learned these formulas fr...