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Richard N. Frye

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BIOGRAPHY

Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian, Harvard University. Director, Asia Institute, Pahlavi University, Shīrāz, Iran, 1969–74. Author of The History of Ancient Iran and others.

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Articles

Historical map showing ancient Mesopotamia with labeled locations of major archaeological and historical sites. Symbols and color codes indicate sites from the prehistoric era, Sumerian-Akkadian culture, Babylonian and Neo-Babylonian eras, Assyrian civilization, Hurrian era, late Persian, Greek, and Parthian eras, as well as marshland areas. The map covers the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, including present-day Iraq and surrounding areas.

history of Mesopotamia

History of Mesopotamia, history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world’s earliest civilization developed. The name comes from a Greek word meaning “between rivers,” referring to the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, but the region can be broadly defined to include the area…

Cyrus the Great

Khosrow I