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15 09, 2017

What is Nowruz? Zoroastrians – West Asian holidays

By |2019-09-04T05:59:52-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on What is Nowruz? Zoroastrians – West Asian holidays

Persepolis may have been built in the 500s BC as a place to celebrate Nowruz. What is the holiday of Nowruz? Zoroastrianism became much more popular suddenly when the Persian kings [...]

21 08, 2017

History of Easter – Christian holidays

By |2019-04-05T06:43:53-07:00August 21st, 2017|Religion, West Asia|Comments Off on History of Easter – Christian holidays

Wheat and barley on the Warka Vase (Sumeria, ca. 3200-3000 BC) Why celebrate spring? When people moved out of Africa further north to West Asia and then to Europe, about 60,000 BC, they began to [...]

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