Texts, Books and Articles

The Elamites

• The Elamite God d.Gal (Walther Hinz)
• The Age of Elamites (Iran Daily)
• Elam: What, When, Where? (Cambridge University)
• Elam in the Latter Days (Nigel Bernard)

The Median Empire & The Achamenid Empire

• First Ages of Empires: The Persian Empire
• The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Translated by George Rawlinson)
• The Persika of Ktesias (Summarized by Photios)
• The Median Empire, The End of Urartu and Cyrus' the Great Campaign in 547 BC
• Medes Civilisation (Iran Daily)
• From Cyrus to Pahlavi (Frederick Tallberg)
• Nahum and the Greek Tradition on Nineveh's Fall (Aron Pinker)
• The Allegory of Astyages (A.D.H. Bivar)
• The Achaemenids and the First Persian Empire (Lonely Planet)
• The Medes and Persians (Bible Studies)
• The Rise and Fall of the Media (Mario Liverani)
• The Rise of the Old Persian Empire: Cyrus the Great (J. Harmatta)
• King Belshazzar 6 Darius the Mede (Old Testament)
• "When the Medes Came": Persia - the Threat from East (Dr. L. Llewellyn- Jones ) 
• The Babylonians, Medes and Persians (The Book of Ezra)
• Persians: The Zoroastrian Civilisation 
• Babylonian & Oriental Record 1887 (Terrien De LaCouperie)
• The Persian Empire (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
• Das Relief von Bisitun 
• The First Declaration of Human Rights (Darius Jahanian)
• Dated Outline of Herodotus' Histories
• The Fall of Babylon vs. The Destruction of Babylon (Chuck Missler)
• Achaemenid Dynasty (Iran Daily)
• The Achaemenid Empire of Persia: The "Other Side" of the Persian Wars
• How Did Five Persian Kings Get In Our Bible?
  
• Documentation of the Documentation of the King of the Kings
• The Origins and Impacts of the Persian Empire
  
• Benevolent Persian Empire (Fariborz Rahnamoon)
• Forgotten Empire (British Museum)
• Law and Order in the Achaemenid Military and Society
• Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis (Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre)
• The Achaemenids and Zoroastrian Fire Altars (Richard N. Frye)
• Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: The ipsissima verba of the Persian Monarchy (Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones)
• Impact of the Achaemenian Architecture on the Architecture of Iberian Kingdom (Eliso Akhvlediani & Kakha Khimshiashvili)
• Iran: Empires of Everlasting Fires (Holly Pittman)
• Cyrus the Great Conquers Lydia
• Cyrus the Great (Stephen Dafoe)
• Some Notes on the Characterization of Cyrus the Great in Jewish and Judeo-Persian Writings (Amnon Netzer)
• Kurosh, Cyrus the Great (Mohamad E. Bastani-Parizi)
• Cyrus the Great Cylinder
• Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus (Xenophon)
• Women in Ancient Persia (Iran Daily)
• Esther: Queen of Persia

Parthian Empire & Sassanid Empire

• Parthian Dynasty (Iran Daily)
• The Age of the Parthians
• The Proper Name of the 2nd Parthian Ruler (G.R.F. Assar)
  
• Historical Cases: Pre-modern Swarming: Horsearcher Cases
• Disaster at Carrhae (53 BC)
• The Inscription of Shapur I at Naqsgh-e-Rustam in Fars 
• Sassanid Shahs of Persia
• The Parthian Origins of the House of Rustam (A.SH. Shahbazi)
• The Concept of Obligated Successorship in the Madiyan I Hizar Dadistan (Mansour Shaki)
• Narative of Events Happening in Persia on the Birth of Christ (Julius Africanus)
• Persia and the Late Roman Empire [284 - 651]: Balance of Power and Spheres of Influence Stability in Asia Minor (Timothy R. Grayson)
• The Two Fifth-Century Wars Between Rome and Persia (Geoffrey Greatrex)
• Iran, Armenia and Georgia: Political Contacts (David M. Lang)

Medieval, Safavid, Afsharid & Qajar Era

• Timurids of Persia and Central Asia
• On Three Muhammadan Dynasties in Northern Persia in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (E. Denison Ross)   
• Jahan-Nama Studies Reveal Safavid Remnants (Iran Daily)
• The Safavid Challenge
• History of Shah Esma'il 
• The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah - From Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant (Michael Axworthy)
• Letter from Amir Kabir to Nasser e-Din Shah
• Critical Pantomime Enraged Qajar King (Iran Daily)
• Awfaq in Persia (Ann Lambton)
• The Qualities of Good Men in the Ottoman and Saffavid Empires (Helen Steele)
• Reports on Persia, Persians and Abbas I (1604)
• The Assassins of Alamut (Anthony Campbell)
• The Assassin Legends (Farhad Daftary)

Modern Iran

• The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah (Stephanie Cronin)
• Iranian Identity I.  Perspectives on Iranian Identity (Dinshah Jijibhoy Irani)
• Ethnic Identity In Iran (Richard N. Frye)
• Persia - Historical & Contemporary (John Baines Tours)
• Factsheet on the Legal and Historical Usage of the Persian Gulf (MIT)
• The Dragon and the Magi: Burgeoning Sino-Iranian Relations in the 21st Century (J. Brandon Gentry)
• Elements of Continuity in the Life of Mysticism and Philosophy in Iran (Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
• The CIA and Iran: What Really Happened? (Ardeshir Zahedi)
• Letter to the Shah of Persia
• British Intelligence and Policy on Persia (Iran) 1900-1949 (India Official Political and Secret Files and Confidential Print)
• Britain’s Native Agents in Arabia and Persia in the Nineteenth Century (James Onley)
• The Military and Iranian Society

Persian Gulf

• The Persian Gulf in the Geographical Views of the Ancient World (Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh)
• History of Persian Gulf (Atefeh Maziyar)
• Historicity of Persian Gulf (Iran Daily)
• Iranians, Pioneers of Navigation in the Persian Gulf (Hossein Nourbakhsh)

Art, Religion, Tradition & Culture

• Persia in the History of Civilisation (Will Durant)
• Zoroastrianism: Zend-Avesta
• Scheherazade: Map Activity
• Akitu & Newroz (F. Aprim)
  
• Concept and Constituent Elements of the Persian Garden
• Farvahar Symbolizes Ancient Persia (Iran Daily)
• The Zoroastrian and Manichean Demon Az (Werner Sundermann)
• The Location of the Farnbag Fire, The Most Ancient of the Zoroastrian Fires (A.V. Williams Jackson)
• Zoroastrian Astrology in the Bundahisn (D.N. Mackenzie)
• What Fruits and Nuts to Eat in Ancient Persia? (Touraj Daryaee)
• Yama/Yima/Jamshed, King of Paradise of the Iranians (Helmut Humbach)
• An Ascent of Mount Demavend, the Persian Olympus (F.L. Bird - National Geographic Magazine)
• The Rise of the Saviour in the Avesta (Almut Hintze)
• On the Antiquity of Zoroastrian Apocalyptic (Mary Boyce)
• Creation and Emanation: Zoroastrian Reflections on the Cosmogonic Myth (Anders Hultgård)
• Considering the Regional Differences in the Parthian Fine Pottery (Takuro Adachi)
• The Iranian Component of the Nusayri Religion (Michael Bar-Asher)
• Art of the Sasanian Empire (American Journal of Archeology)
• The Mysteries of Mithras: A New Account of Their Genesis (Roger Beck)
• On Mithra's Part in Zoroastrianism (Mary Boyce)
• Gold Coins of the Sassanids (Deutsche Bundesbank)
• Manistan and Xanaqah (Bo Utas)
• Revelations, Theology and Poetics in the Gathas (Martin Schwartz)
• Eastern Iranian Epic Traditions III: Zarathustra and Diomedes - An Indo-European Epic Warrior Type (Prods Oktor Skjærvø)
• Treasure of Xerxes
• On Spenta Mainyu's Role in the Zoroastrian Cosmogony (Phillip G. Kreyenbroek)
• On the Evolution of the Early Iranian Fire Tempel (David Stronach)
• Anahita & Alexander (William L. Hanaway Jr.) 
• The Song of the World: Art of Safavid Iran (Louvre)
• Safavid Bridges in Isfahan (Iran Daily)
• The Art & Architecture of Persia (Giovanni Curtola & Gianroberto Scarcia)
• Isfahan, City of Paradise: A study of Safavid Urban Pattern and a Symbolic Interpretation of the Chabar-Bagh Gardens (Farideh Hooshangi)
• The Games of Chess and Backgammon in Sasanian Persia
• Le Chant du Monde: A Disenchanting Echo of Safavid Art History
• Layout Isfahan
• Qajar Dress from Iran (National Museum of Ethnology)
• Arms & Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period (Manouchehr Khorasani)
  
• The Culture of the Sakas in Ancient Iranian Khotan (J.R. Russell)
• Iranian Arms and Armor: Kaveh Ahangar
• Classics in Persia (Richard N. Frye)

Articles

• The Alexander Movie: How are Iranians and Greeks portrayed? (Dr. Kaveh Farrokh)
• Pan-Arabism's Legacy of Confrontation with Iran (Dr. Kaveh Farrokh)
• The Truth Behind "300" (Cyrus Kar)
• The Language of Azeri People and Pan-Turkism (Mohammad Taghi Sbokddel)

Iranian Language

• Ventures And Adventures Of The Persian Language (University of Maryland)
  
• Teach Yourself Avesta Language (Dr. Ervad Ramiyar Parvez Karanjia)
• The Legend of the Flood in Zoroastrian Tradition (Mahnaz Moazami)
• Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: The ipsissima verba of the Persian Monarchy (Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones)
  
• The Story of Rostam and Esfandiyar in an Iranian Dialect (Hamid Mahamedi)
• Khordeh Avesta - Manthra, the Best Prayer 
• The Old Persian Language
• Etymology of the Words "Baghdad" and "Zij" (Dr. Malayeri)
• The Middle Persian Inscription from Meshkinshahr (Richard N. Frye & Prods Oktor Skjærvø)
• The Names and the Order of the Old Persian and Elamite Months During the Achaemenian Period (Arno Poebel)
• Loan-Words in Achaemenid Elamite: The Spelling of Old Persian Month Names (Gian Pietro Basello)
• The Allegory in the Persian Empire (A.D.H. Bivar)
• A Beautiful Girl (F. Vahman)
• Sitikar Namak I Manuschir Gosnjaman: A Critical Study (M.F. Kanga)
• The Language of the Medians (David Mackenzie)
• Thematic and Linguistic Parallels in the Achaemenian and Sassanian Inscriptions (Prods Oktor Skjærvø)
• Two Parthian Ostraca from Nippur (Shaul Shaked)
• Linguistic Similarities in Sindhi and Persian (Dr. Ghulam Ali Allana)
• On the Composition of the Ayyatkar I Zareran (Bo Utas)
• Some Sociolinguistic aspects of Persian Language (Nader Jahangiri)
• Notes on Some Parthian Names from Nisa (Dieter Weber)
• Some Names From Nisa (D.N. Mackenzie)
• Shahname of Ferdowsi (The Epic of Kings)
• My Kingdom Is Not of this World: Revisiting the Great Parthian Crucifixion Hymn (Enrico Morano)
• The Romance of Khusraw and Shirin
• Persian Loan-Words in Anatolian Turkish (Andreas Tietze)
• Some Parthian Abecedarian Hymns (Mary Boyce)
• A Pahlavi Poem (W.B. Henning)
• Soghdian Tales (W.B. Henning)
• The Bactrian Inscription (W.B. Henning)
• The Origin of Kurdish (D.N. Mackenzie)
• The Guran (V. Minorsky)
• Fahlaviat
• The Tati Dialect of Kajal (E. Yarshater)
• The Dialect of Shahrud/Khalkhal (E. Yarshater)
• The Xo'ini Dialect (E. Yarshater)
• A List of Middle-Persian and Parthian Words (W.B. Henning)
• A Strange Account of the World's Origin (Alan Williams)
• The Position of Zazaki among West Iranian Languages (Ludwig Paul)
• Pashto Verse (D.N. Mackenzie)
• Talysh, Northern/North-West Iranian (Schulze)
• Positive Orientation Towards the Vernacular among the Talysh of Sumgayit (Calvin F. Tiessen)
• Ossetic and Balochi in Abaev's Slovar (Adriano Valerio Rossi)
• Wanderers and Prophets in the Caucasus (Elio Provasi)
• Ossetic (Fridrik Thordarson)