The Achaemenid Persian Empire 550-330 BCE “provided for nearly two centuries a framework for the Near East…Large areas knew longer periods of peace under it than they had for centuries and it was in many ways a beautiful and gentle civilization. Greeks had already been told by Herodotus that the Persians loved flowers …the tulip…we owe to them…” ~ a wonderful tribute to ancestral legacy by Oxford graduate British historian J. M. Roberts in “The New History of the World” (orig. 1976; revised ed. 2003)… loving flowers and cultivating gardens are indicative of cultural humanism… [pic Transoxiana @Dr. Matteo Compareti: A 7th c. Sogdian [Iranian stock] textile design based on ancient Iranian arts especially Sasanian …one may see ancient Iranian element of flanking animals – here each side of a stylized Iris or fleur-de-lis later adopted by early western European nobility… note the very Iranian pearl roundel and the animals are standing on a wing-like or leaf-like platform... the figure was published by Staviskij in 1974 book “The Art of Central Asia. The Ancient Period 6th century BC-8th century AD” … for educational purposes only]
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