abstract the mosaic art as a decorative element in buildings enjoys several thousand years of age in egypt, mesopotamia, greece, rome and byzantium and is widely usedbut technically speaking, the earliest mosaic forms have poorly made. they were made by insertion of fruit cores or broken pottery pieces in the wet mud mortar of walls. later, the art evolved rapidly and extensively used for archi...

Present paper is the second publication introducing the paleoparasitological findings from animal coprolites obtained from archeological site of Chehrabad salt mine in northwestern Iran. The current archeological site is located in northwest of Iran, dated to the Sassanian Era (4(th)/5(th) century CE). In the summer 2012 the carnivore coprolite was obtained within the layers in the mine and wer...

Since fi rst discovered in the early 19th century, the ossuaries from Bushehr, Persian Gulf, have attracted attention as possible archaeological evidence for ancient Zoroastrian burial practice. Th is practice involved exposing cadavers to birds before the surviving remains were gathered for deposition in an ossuary. In this paper, the human remains recovered from two ossuaries at Bushehr are d...

Abstract Like many other religions, Zoroastrianism frequently restructured its priestly organization during long history, largely because of the environmental changes to which it was exposed. A major shift in status – from being state religion Sasanian Empire holding only a minor position early Islamic period challenged Zoroastrian hierarchy authority. The Abbasid provided with an opportunity i...

We describe a silver coin found in one of the burials at Gorny-10 cemetery northern Altai, excavated by expeditions from Altai State University 2000–2003. The was discovered destroyed burial children (No. 46) along with other informative artifacts, which are rather uncommon such burials. Judging horse harness and ornaments, assemblage falls interval late 6th to early 8th century AD. is an imita...

elymais regions include the elevated plains and valleys of bakhtiary mountains in east of karun river and in fact it is the northeast of khozestan province. although the exact determining of the region extend is difficult but during its life the extend has changed in terms of the new conquests of parthians and some more or less important parts of elymais were dominated by small neighboring stat...