Further East, encounter with the Zoroastrians of the Persian Sassanian Empire led to some debate about the significance of Jesus. |
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His long hands lay folded in his lap, and his domed head, like that on some ancient Sassanian coin, was bent forward. |
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The Abbasid Dynasty established its capital at Baghdad, near the old Sassanian capital. |
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One such site is the ruin of the Sassanian era Azargoshasb Fire Temple in Iran's Azarbaijan Province. |
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Perhaps the least expected sale was of a Sassanian silver-gilt vessel sold to a mainland museum by David Aaron Ancient Arts. |
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This monument dates back to the Sassanian period and to the time of Bahram-Gour. |
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Also in the fourth century AD, the Red Sea and its coastal areas had always been a controversial policy of the Byzantine and Sassanian. |
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