TORTURE IN THE ACHAEMENID PERIOD. Definition. Torture is here taken as defined in the United Nations Convention against Torture and…

ACHAEMENID ROYAL COMMUNICATION, the spreading of every kind of information and decision-making needed for governmental control. Under this topic can…

NEMRUD DAĞI, mountain (elev. 2,150 m) in the Anti-Taurus range, Adıyaman province, Turkey, and site of the tomb sanctuary of…

CAUCASUS and Iran. iii. ACHAEMENID RULE IN Achaemenid rule in the Caucasus region was established, at the latest, in the…

ACHAEMENID SATRAPIES, the administrative units of the Achaemenid empire. In modern research the use of the term satrapy follows that…