#Gundeshapur

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Greek Myths- No 1'Claudius Ptolemy' supposedly lived in ~150 CE Egypt. And whatever Egyptian/Babylonian epistemic knowledge he had is treated as 'Greek Knowledge' without question. And western historians have been

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

BiruniKhorasan

The Afghan Persian word for hospital is "Shifa Khane" (شیفا خانه): "House of Health".The Iranian Persian word for hospital is "Bimaristan" (بیمارستان): "Place of Sickness".I think the Afghan version is

Syed

gypsy_heart6

1. In modern Persian, zamin-dar means 'the one who holds land' but it might be related to Middle Persian Zamin-i dātbar (Land of the Justice-giver). Zamin-i dātbar/Zamindawar was capital of

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

BiruniKhorasan

Going to start a thread about architecture in Khorasan and Khwarezm and also its offshoot, India:The Tilla Kari madrasa was commissioned a decade after the adjacent Shir Dar madrasa (1619-1636)