History of Khorâsan and the Persianate Worldさんのイラストまとめ

Same album. Female pictures.

Album of Male #Tajik Costumes by Gremyachinskaya, et al., 1969.

Fourth pic is the way people dress in what is now western #Afghanistan and the rural areas of #Iran´s #Khorasan province.

Did you know #Hepthalites had a strange belief that an artificially deformed head was a symbol of high status, achieved by binding the head during infancy?

Sogdian clay ossuary and deformed skulls. Seventh-eight century. Afrasiab Museum, #Samarkand.

#Khorasan

IMPORTANT: Ibn Sina held correspondence with another giant and fellow countrymen of him: Abu Rayhan Biruni. Both exchanged opinions on philosophy and also trolled each other a bit.

Link of their conversation right here!

https://t.co/oWPQGiQqau

Today is the 1040 anniversary of the birth of Ibn Sina, known in the #West as #Avicenna, considered as one of the greatest philosophers in #History and the father of modern #medicine and one of the greatest figures in #Khorasan´s history.

Thread:

"Guys only want one thing and it's disgusting"

Guys:

Along with the ordinary Dutâr in Herat we have also a modified variant called "Dutâr-e Herati", which has 14 strings. It sounds a little bit different.

"Zamburak" (#Persian زمبورک "Little Wasp") was a specialized form of self-propelled #artillery, featuring small #cannons fired from swivel-mounts on #camels

Zamburaks most likely originated in the Timurid or Safavid empires and became highly popular in the 18th century.

#FunFact Did you know according to Dekhoda´s Dictionary #Persian consists of 343,466 #words?

The #original series initially consisted of 3 million records until Dehkhoda's death in 1955. This is the current data according to the latest #digital release of the #dictionary.

#Map of the #Ghaznavid Empire in 1030 AD.