SANJAR SHAH, an archeological site in Tajikistan. In 1946 a team of Soviet orientalists surveyed the foothills of the Zarafshan…

CLOTHING v. In pre-Islamic eastern Iran Modern knowledge of the dress of the eastern Iranian peoples is derived from literary…

DUMAQU (or Domoko), administrative center of the eastern region of the Khotan oasis in Chinese Turkestan. About 20 km to…

DANDĀN ÖILÏQ (“ivory houses”), ruined city located about 50 km north of the Domoko oasis in the eastern portion of the…

KAʿBA-YE ZARDOŠT “Kaʿba of Zoroaster,” an ancient building at Naqš-e Rostam near Persepolis. It probably acquired its name in the…

FLÜGEL,GUSTAV LEBERECHT (b. 18 February 1802, Bautzen; d. 5 July 1870, Dresden), German Orientalist. Flügel studied theology and Orientalistics in…

LENTZ, OTTO HELMUT WOLFGANG (b. Hameln, Niedersachsen, February 23, 1900-d. Marburg, Germany, December 8, 1986), German Iranologist who specialized in…