Music links Early bone flutes, about 60,000 BC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHy9FOblt7Y Rock gong, at least 7000 BC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kr1D5-GW44 African drumming from about 3000 BC or earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0MiMs1Hp-o [...]
21 history cartoons for the enlightened (and some other cartoons too) Well, we thought they were funny. All original history cartoons and political cartoons, mostly with a leftist, feminist, anti-racist slant (like [...]
Khosrau II King Khosrau II, of the Sassanian Empire, on a gold coin (600s AD) Khosrau II was only twenty years old when he became king in 590 AD. Probably [...]
A later illustration from the Shahnameh of the execution of the prophet Mazdak The Sassanians in decline In 500 AD, in the early Middle Ages, the Sassanian empire in Iraq and [...]
Khosrau becomes king A silver bowl showing the Sassanian king Khosrau I hunting deer; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the Sassanian ruler Kavadh died in [...]
Yazdegerd Yazdegerd I, the Sassanian king When the Sassanian king Bahram IV was killed in 399 AD, his brother Yazdegerd took control of the Sassanian empire. Yazdegerd maintained peace with the Roman [...]
Hormidz II Shapur II, a Sassanian ruler in the 300s AD Hormidz II was the second of Shapur the Great's grandsons to rule the Sassanian Empire in what is now Iran [...]
Ardashir and Shapur Ardashir I was the first Sassanian ruler of the Parthian Empire. Here he gets the kingship from the chief Zoroastrian god, Ahura Mazda. Ardashir was the first [...]
Vologases I, the king of the Parthian Empire Artabanus III and his son Vardanes The murder of Queen Musa and her son in 4 AD ended up with another civil [...]
Nalbinding hat from Urumchi in the Tocharian or Yuezhi kingdom (ca. 1000 BC) The Yamnaya become the Yuezhi Around 3000 BC, in the Bronze Age, some of the Yamnaya people [...]
