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Category: Belief, Ritual, and Meaning

  • Zoroastrian Thought Before the Empire: Asha, Fire, and the Ethics of Kingship

    12 Aug 2025
  • Nomads, Traders, and Tribal Roots: Pre-Imperial Persia

    18 Apr 2025
  • The Role of Zoroastrianism in the Achaemenid Empire: Faith, Governance, and Legacy

    5 Nov 2024
  • Celestial Innovations: How Achaemenid Persia Advanced Astronomy and Science

    10 Sep 2024
  • The Blossoming of Science, Philosophy, and Mathematics During the Achaemenid Era

    10 Sep 2024
  • Ancient Persian Innovations That Changed the World

    1 Sep 2024
  • Gardens of Persia: The Paradise Paradigm in Ancient Persia

    15 Aug 2024
  • Eternal Majesty: The Tomb of Cyrus the Great from Past to Present

    17 Jun 2024
  • Cyrus the Great’s Cylinder – A Very First Ancient Commandments of Human Rights

    12 Mar 2024
  • A Glimpse into the Lives of the Achaemenids: The Forgotten People

    29 Feb 2024
  • Sais at the Dawn of Persian Egypt: A Medical Institution Surviving Conquest

    3 Jul 2021
  • Cambyses and The Story of the Apis Bull in Egypt

    4 Mar 2021

Kam Austine

Among ruins, inscriptions, and forgotten halls, some stories still breathe.
I share reflections now and then — slow, thoughtful, unhurried.
Here, we follow the line that runs from the ancient to the now.

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