jami’s baharestan is one of the most valuable persian literary works; it embodies a lot of fruitful stories and discourses, whose most sources are arabic. though one may find out from jami’s words that he has not used the literary works of his predecessors, an investigation on arabic sources may lead one to lots of background works of the stories of this book. in this paper, we have identified ...

In 1911, members of a British expedition walked across the Antarctic to the South Pole, but in the punishingly hostile environment, retracing their steps back to the edge of the continent proved fatal. Over the last 100 years, knowledge about human physiology has greatly increased and, on the centenary of this most extreme of all journeys, this essay explores the true extent of the physiologica...

professor jean yoyotte, one of the most prominent french egyptologists, holds that perhaps unlike what the egyptians themselves maintain, the fountainhead of everything is not in egypt; yet one has to agree that circa 3000 bc, egypt was indeed much more advanced than its neighboring states. indelible relics, architectural masterpieces, and works of art remaining from that era have reached us th...