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Tuesday 30 May 2006
by Ali Hajipour
Human rights Charter of Cyrus , the Great Ancient King of Iran
The picture of Cyrus in Thkht Jamshid
The Human Rights Charter of Cyrus , the Great ancient king of Iran was issued in 539 B . C . following the conquest of Babylonia . It was declared by Cyrus on the first day of spring when his coronation took place in Babylonia . After his coronation he went to Mardouk Temple of the great god and declared the Charter .
According to some experts specialised in Islamic knowledge Dholgharnain named in the holy Quran is probably the same as (...)

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Tuesday 15 February 2005
Insurance in Ancient Iran
From: www.netiran.com and
Gardeshgary, Quarterly Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 12, Spring 2002, Page 14-16 By : Mohammad Sadegh Nazmi Afshar
Another measures taking place in the time of world Achaemenian government was establishing a law known today as insurance. Achaemenian monarchs were the first insured their people and made it official by registering the insuring process in governmental notary offices. The insurance tradition was performed each year in Norouz (beginning of the Iranian New (...)

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Wednesday 2 February 2005
The Laws of the Ancient Persians
From : The Laws of the Ancient Persians, S. J. Bulsara, Bombay, 1937
1. The Laws of the ancient Persians2. Religion and Divinity as the Foundations of Law3. The State and the Sovereign4. Administration of Justice5. The Police organization of the Empire6. The Ecclesiastical Courts and Their Functions7. The Iranian people and their great classes8.

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