Avestan period
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The Avestan period is the period of Iranian history when the collection of canonical texts of Zoroastrianism called the Avesta were produced. The period saw important developments to religious thought
Reconstructed pit-house of the Srubnaya culture, an example of early Iranic steppe pastoralists.
Colorized picture of farmers winnowing grain in Southern Iran, 1921.
Illustration from the Shahnameh depicting the murder of Iraj by his brothers Sarm and Tur.
Persia with part of the Ottoman Empire, 1872
Avesta
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The Avesta is the text corpus of religious literature of Zoroastrianism. All its texts are composed in the Avestan language and written in the Avestan alphabet. It represents the largest literature of
Illuminated Iranian Vendidad Sade manuscript (MS 4060/RSPA 230) from Yazd, dated to 15 Ēsfand 1016 AY (1647)
First page of an Iranian Sade manuscript of the Vendidad, the only volume of the Sasanian Avesta (called Juddēwdād therein) which has remained intact until today