Avesta
AVESTA. Only a small part of the Avesta (MPers., Abastāg; the name probably means "the Injunction [of Zarathushtra]"), the collection of sacred books of Zoroastrianism, has...
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In the essay below, Waterhouse examines the process by which the Avesta, including Zoroaster's Gathas, was compiled and discusses the structure of each.
The discovery of the key to the under...
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QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq — A defiant spokeswoman for the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party said Saturday that if Turkey attacks the group's bases in Iraq's rugged northeastern mountains, the cland...
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