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Tag: Persian Governance

  • The Assyrian Model of Imperial Control: Lessons the Persians Embraced and Rejected

    14 Jun 2025
  • Why Did the Achaemenid Persian Empire Decline?

    3 Jul 2024
  • Part 2: The Role of Satraps in the Achaemenid Empire: Balancing Power and Authority

    14 Jun 2024
  • Part 1: The Role of Satraps in the Achaemenid Empire: Balancing Power and Authority

    14 Jun 2024
  • The Women of Pasargadae: Influential Queens and Princesses in Persian History

    28 May 2024
  • Egypt and Persia: Battles, Governance, and Cultural Exchange in Antiquity

    12 May 2024
  • The Greco-Persian Cultural Exchange: From Conflict to Cooperation

    10 May 2024
  • Atossa: Queen of Persia and Mother of Kings

    9 May 2024
  • Bardiya and the Throne of Deception: Investigating a Persian Mystery

    3 May 2024
  • The Apadana Palace of Susa: Darius’s Throne of Light

    29 Feb 2024
  • Persian Cuneiform – The Script of Empire

    25 Mar 2021
  • Cambyses and The Story of the Apis Bull in Egypt

    4 Mar 2021
  • Behistun Inscription and the Mystry of False Bardiya

    2 Mar 2021

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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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