This document (No. 661 in Kharosṣṭhī inscriptions transcribed and edited by AM Boyer, EJ Rapson, and É. Senart [and PS Noble]) has been the subject of special study by Professor …
This essay considers the institution of mehmandari, the practice of having foreigners visiting in an official capacity welcomed, accompanied, and provided for by the host country. It …
This article is about the ubiquitous nature of a central Asian plant, today referred to as “camel grass 駱駝草” in Xinjiang. It will be argued that the very same grass, strictly speaking a …
This article analyzes the finds’ assemblage of burial 8, a subterranean cemetery near Edis village, Dzau district, South Ossetia. The author preliminarily dates the burial to the seventh—…
The ethnic and linguistic picture of Azerbaijan in the medieval period could be characterized as a mosaic. Diverse religious and ethnic groups prevented the society from becoming …
Little attention has been paid by Sanskrit scholars to the fragments of Ctesias's account of India since McCrindle brought out a translation of them in the Indian Antiquary, x, 296–323, but…
When Shāh ‘Abbās I (r. 1587–1629) left this world on January 29, 1629, Iran lost a formidable king, a ruler who had ‘united’his country and given it a solid political and military …
The Pahlavi version rather the Pahlavi translation with commentary-of the Avesta, which, as a whole is preserved only of the two larger books Yasna and Vandidad, and of the smaller …
The article attempts to address a common notion in the English speaking world that the pre-Christian Slavic religion was basically animistic. And that personified and anthropomorphic …