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The European in India, 1813 by Charles D'Oyly (1781-1845)

A world of science

08 Oct 2015

The history of science has been centred for too long on the West, say Simon Schaffer and Sujit Sivasundaram. It’s time to think global.

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Shahnama (c.1435)

The Book of Kings: the epic continues

01 Nov 2010

A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.

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Athens acropolis

The Athenians: Another warning from history?

02 Oct 2009

The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson...

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A version of Shahnama: a battle between Iran and Turan

Bringing together the Book of Kings

08 Feb 2008

The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.

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