![]() ![]() You have been here a kind of watershed of civilization, pouring your blood and thought and art and religion eastward and westward into the world. From that new blood came the noble Sanskrit language, so nearly kin to your own melodious speech from that fusion came the Vedas, the Upanishads, and Buddha. ![]() Sixteen centuries before Christ there went from these regions or near it-from Aryana Vaieho, or Old Iran-the migration that poured new blood into northern India. ![]() Listening to the patient and erudite exposition given by Mehdi Bahrami while he guided us through the collections in Iran’s beautiful Archaeological Museum, I felt more deeply than before the antiquity of this culture, and its success in stamping its own exquisite quality upon every alien force that has entered this land.įor thousands of years Persians have been creating beauty. Asked to comment briefly on Persia in The History of Civilization, I have very reluctantly consented, for it is incredible that I should be able to reveal to so learned an audience any new aspect of Iran’s fascinating culture and career. ![]()
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