Plant remains from archaeological sites reflect many aspects of the relationship between people, plants, and the environment in which they lived. Plant macroremains—seeds and wood that are visible without a microscope—can address a wide range of questions. The most basic include what crops were grown? What was used for fuel? Do any of the plants come from distant lands? Examples from fourth and...

BACKGROUND Along with the newly emergence of paleoparasitology research in Iran, findings of parasites from Northern part of the county have not been reported so far. In this study tracking for the lancet liver fluke dates back 250 BC is addressed. METHODS Samples were taken from grave crypts of the soil layers attached to the pelvic bones from above-mentioned site in 2015. The laboratory exa...

Orta Asya konargöçerleri -Daai, Massagetai ve Sakai- MÖ 331-330 yılları civarında III. Dareios’un hatta sonrasında Büyük İskender’in ordusunda özel atlı okçu birlikler olarak hizmet etmişlerdir. 323 yılında ani ölümü İran’ın kuzey doğu coğrafyasını da ciddi bir şekilde istikrarsızlığa sürüklemiştir. Daai Konfederasyonu’na bağlı üç kabileden biri olan İskit kökenli A/parnoi, B. bölge üzerinde hâ...

Hamadan province in western Iran has always been of particular archaeological significance mainly because its administrative centre Ecbatana, modern Hamadan. In 2005 a bas-relief dating to the Parthian period was found southern highlands Alvand, Yakhchal valley. Recently, second relief, very similar one, at Mydan Mishan. This relief depicts person lying on klinè with his legs stretched out and ...

this article is aimed at investigating the cultural-artistic exchange and its influence on female costumes in the most critical part of the history; that is during the formation of the parthian kingdom in the great achaemenid’s realm after the invasion of foreigners such as alexandra and the greek. this paper also examines the causes that have lead to transformations in the type of woman's...

an examination of historical text and archaeological data show that mehrjanqadhaq was one of the important states of western iran which had been founded and formed in a region now known as darreshsher or more exactly in saimara valley. the history of the state goes back to parthian era. archaeological data in confirmation of historical texts both indicate settlement sequence form parthian era t...