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... Its history dates to the pre-Islam era when Iran's Zoroastrians praised exceptional calligraphy as an art form. ...
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Tokyo’s Ancient Orient Museum has displayed a collection of Persian calligraphy produced by a female Japanese artist and her pupils.
The exhibition puts on display 30 works created during classes instructed by a Japanese master of Persian calligraphy, Hisako Tsunoda.
The event, continuing through March 11, was attended by Iran’s cultural attaché in Tokyo. Javad Kazemi expressed Iran’s readiness to cooperate with Japanese artists interested in Iranian art and culture. Read More »
Darius I the Great was the third Achaemenid king of kings (r. 29 September 522-October 486 B.C.E.). He was born in 550 B.C.E. (cf. Herodotus, 1.209), the eldest son of Vištâspa (Hystaspes) and *Vardagauna (Gk. Rhodog(o)u‚nê, NPers. Golgûn; Justi, Namenbuch, p. 261; Hinz, 1975a, p. 270). Before his accession to the throne he served Cambyses (529-22 B.C.E.) as a spear bearer in Egypt (Herodotus, 3.139).
The primary sources are of four basic kinds. First, there is Darius’ record relief (DB) at Bîsotûn (q.v.; for the Old Persian text, see now Schmitt; for the Babylonian text, with some variants, see von Voigtlander); an additional fragment of the relief (Seidl) and one of the Babylonian inscription (von Voigtlander, pp. 63-65) are also known, as are substantial portions of an Aramaic version (Greenfield and Porten). The second category includes texts and monuments from Persepolis (Schmidt; Kent, Old Persian; Cameron; Read More »
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Wikipedia added a new entry called Partiha which is the english translation of Ashkanian, you can find more about Parthia here.
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