Of what ethnicity were the Persians and what is the evidence to draw infer such? To begin with, the Achaemin- ids, another name of the Elamite kingdom and peoples, was formed by Cyrus the Great in 559 BC. The above bas relief, in Pasargade, northeast of Persepolis, is of Cyrus. His head shape captures his hair style which is round and this depicts the round-ball that kinky African hair naturally assumes. For instance, observe the hair above the hat-piece in pictures 6 and 9, both from Susa - that hair is wooly, African and the hair at the back of the head beneath the headpiece in 9 is wooly and identical to the balls of hair representing the Nubian style in 10. Cyrus was the founder of the Achaeminds and, color aside (though 6, 7, and 10 are black skinned), all in this page bear some combination of African features: a full nose and mouth, wooly hair (see 10 in particular). Picture 5, for instance, of Darius the Great, is clearly of African pheontype as with the nose, mouth, and wooly hair. However, note that one will find later versions of this same sculpture whose picture was taken near 1925 to look more Western. By hair comparison, for instance, the hair of Caucasians (pic. 11 from Russian Steppes) is long and flowing and such is not among the early stages of Iranian populations. Pictures from Persepolis: 1, 5, 10; Pictures from Susa, the rest. Picture 7 is a Heavenly Guard. ..art, art history, Paul Marc Washington, paleoneolithic@yahoo.com

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