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It took 70 years to decode Kushan ancient scripts

Ancient Persia, Ancient inscription / Sean Ra

Researchers have partially deciphered the enigmatic “Kushan script” using inscriptions in the Bactrian language, shedding light on an ancient Middle Persian language used by the Kushan Empire in Central Asia and Northwest India. Organic matter decomposition has made the script somewhat obscure, but surviving cave wall carvings and ceramics provide clues. Further research aims to decode the remaining characters.

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Yalda night

Ancient Persia, Ancient Cuisine, Ancient Education, Ancient Rituals / Sean Ra

Discover the history and significance of Yalda night, one of the oldest Iranian festivals, celebrated on the longest night of the year.

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Cyrus the great

Ancient Persia, Ancient inscription, Persian Kings / Sean Ra

Throughout the history of Iran, few people can be named who have the greatness, bravery and courage of Cyrus the Great or Cyrus the Second, who with good deeds, good words, and good thoughts have been able to bring about a great revolution in the history of Iran and become famous in the world. Cyrus

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Lost ancient Peruvian fresco

Ancient inscription / Sean Ra

BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE – AFP Archaeologists have unearthed a pre-Hispanic fresco depicting mythological scenes in northern Peru, which had been lost for a century. “It’s an exceptional discovery, first of all, because it is rare to unearth wall paintings of such quality in pre-Colombian archaeology,” said Sam Ghavami, the Swiss archaeologist who led excavations that

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Omar Khayyam, his wisdom

Ancient Persia, Ancient Poets, Omar Khayyam / Sean Ra

The historic Silk Road city of Nishapur, which is located in eastern Iran, was a place of political importance and a prosperous center of arts, crafts, philosophy and trade in medieval times. But the city still sustains its fame today thanks to the master of arts and sciences it raised in the past: Omar Khayyam

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Caanite inscription on ancient comb Discovered

Ancient inscription, Ancient Palestine / Sean Ra

Archaeologists have discovered a rare inscription on an ivory comb that sheds new light on the use of the Canaanite language some 3,700 years ago, marking what is likely the oldest-known full sentence in the Canaanite alphabetical script. The inscription encourages people to comb their hair and beards to rid themselves of lice. The sentence

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Ottomans inspired smallpox vaccine

Ancient Turkey, Ancient Education / Sean Ra

Praise and credit in science often go to those who popularized an invention, not to those who invented the idea first. In 1840, Warren de la Rue created one of the first electric light bulbs in human history as he placed within a vacuum tube a platinum coil and glided an electric current through it,

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Göbeklitepe’s latest mystery reveals stone tool

Ancient Turkey, Ancient Handicrafts, Ancient Tools / Sean Ra

Located on a sun-blasted hillside in southeast Turkey, the world’s oldest religious sanctuary, Göbeklitepe, offers new information almost every day, allowing scientists to delve deeper into human history. A recent discovery has revealed the traces of stone tool technology produced by the printing method transferred from Siberia to Göbeklitepe. In Göbeklitepe, “Potbelly Hill” in Turkish, which

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Al-Qarawiyyin, world’s oldest university

Ancient Africa, Ancient Education / Sean Ra

hen thinking of the oldest universities in the world, probably the first ones that come to most people’s minds are Oxford and Bologna, but according to UNESCO and the Guinness World Records, Al-Qarawiyyin University (also written as Al-Karaouine) is the “oldest existing, and continually operating educational institution in the world.” Founded in 859 A.D. by

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Rock-carved inscription, stairs discovered

Ancient inscription / Sean Ra

Cultural heritage personnel, during their routine inspections, have discovered a rock-carved inscription and some rock-hewn stairs in Marvdasht plain. Situated in Fars province, the southern Iranian plain is home to the UNESCO-registered sites of Persepolis and Pasargadae as well as tens of other magnificent structures. The inscription measuring 100 by 75 centimeters bears Nas’taliq scripts,

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