although many archaeological evidences have not been found from the achaemenian period, the domain of findings of this period have increased day by bay. one of these evidences includes treasures and cultural findings which have been identified in thrace, situated in the balkan peninsula. this region was of great importance for the achaemenid empire because of its rich underground resources and ...

various opinions have been put forward about achaemenian beliefs and thoughts, especially about the religious beliefs of the achaemenian kings such as cyrus the great. scholars rely on herodotus’s statements that “they didn’t look at building temples and altars as a religious tradition, they refer believing in these things as ignorance and foolishness in the converse opinion to greeks. they did...

The phenomenon of creating enemy images is timeless and universal. 1 In this activity, an abnormal " Other " is negatively juxtaposed in relation to a normal " Self " , not the least in political discourse. In various situations-notably ones that involve the topic of colonialism-a " subaltern " is constructed, that is an agent who is both inferior (thus " sub ") and different in an essence-base...

if we consider the starting of achaemenian empire in 559 bc, the year that cyrus, the second, came to power and its ending in 332 bc, the year that iran was conquered by alexander, the macedonian, in these 227 years of military and political development of achaemenian empire, some of the nations and countries for example egypt, within achaemenian territory came under iranian military, economic ...

There is a range of evidence that informs us about the organisation of the Achaemenid Empire, but our understanding ofthe eastern-most reaches of the empire, which lie within the bounds of modern-day Pakistan is relatively limited. Whilethere is evidence for the eastern provinces in imperial art and references to them in Achaemenid Royal inscriptions, thearchaeological record in the subcontinen...