Monthly Archives: January 2014

The Zoroastrian Religion of the Achaemenids   The Greek writings establish with certainty that the Achaemenids were Zoroastrians. But in the past few decades, some academic circles with a clear agenda, insist otherwise. A change of faith during any Empire … Continue reading →

Copyright: @2014 Ardeshir Farahmand ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. … Continue reading →

Copyright: @2014 Ardeshir Farahmand. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Then the architect … Continue reading →

The most festive time of the year in the Zoroastrian religious calendar is the 10th month called “day” in modern Persian. In the Seasonal Avestan calendar, the tenth month starts around mid-December and ends around mid-January. The festivals in the month … Continue reading →