From Persepolis to the Punjab: Exploring the Past in in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Elizabeth Errington

From Persepolis to the Punjab: Exploring the Past in in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan

Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Elizabeth Errington

288 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The phrase 'from Persepolis to the Punjab' refers to the vast Iranian empires of the Achaemenids (550-331 BC), Parthians (238 BC-AD 224) and the Sasanians (AD 224-651), which extended eastwards through Afghanistan to the north-western borderlands ...

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