in the iranians’ system of thought, the habitable cities had such great importance that their constructions were attributed to the kings especially the sasanians in the historical and geographical works and also in ferdowsi’s shāh-nāme. in the first part, this essay seeks to gather and classify various examples and analyze the construction model of cities and their specifications in ancient ira...

In this paper we use three disparate examples to highlight the relevance of historical methods in the context of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. Unfortunately, in ethnopharmacology we have only very few examples where such historical depth is possible. On the other hand the first hand data available through ethnopharmacological research, may be of relevance for interpreting historical inform...

In places like contemporary China, where legal adjudication for past wrongdoings is impossible, an aesthetic engagement with the experience of loss has become essential to activating these historical remains and undermining violent narratives of progress. Tracing several generations’ aesthetic responses to the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and the present day influx of glo...

according to historical sources, in time of oljaito reign the city was built at the foot hills of bisotun mountain that called sultan abad-e chamchamal. it was a main political region during the ilkhanid period.due to the lack of archaeological studies, the exact position of this important site remains unclear and its exact location is the problems questioned in the archaeology of that region.i...

This work deals with some interesting issues that arose when the ITC-irst broadcast news transcription system was applied to transcribe the audio track of historical documentary films. Due to an evident acoustic and linguistic mismatch between the broadcast news and the new application domain, the initial word error rate was of 46.4%. By exploiting a limited amount of manually annotated trainin...

An examination of what is included and excluded in a documentary invites readings of the producer‟s ideology and what values comprise their intended audience. What if a production company in Germany produced a documentary in Poland in the late 1930‟s and made no mention of the German invasion? What if an American company made a documentary in Vietnam in the 1960‟s and made no mention of America...