Throughout human history, the rate of world population growth overall has been outpaced by the rate of urban population growth. Right now, more the half the world's population lives in cities, and tha
In this his most important work, the pioneering anthropologist Berthold Laufer documents the cultural transfers that took place between China and Iran in early times. Few other works provide so much i
Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed—first from cuneiform to a modifie
