Cultural Heritage
The Persepolitan Diaspora Project
The two grants awarded in 2013 and 2015 to Dr Lindsay Allen, Lecturer in Greek & Near Eastern History at King’s College London, have enabled her to locate fragments from Persepolis that had left the site in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries . This is part of a larger project to mapping all Persepolis fragments abroad entitled ‘Perse...
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Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecturee
Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture is the first-ever documentary film on the world’s largest brickwork vault in Ctesiphon (near Baghdad in present-day Iraq). . The present ruins are those of the palace built n by the Sasanian Dynasty near the strategic frontier with the Roma Empire. After the Arab invasions of the 7thcentury AD, the imposing rui...
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