Abstract
Although the history of writing and the application of writing in the present geographic boundaries of Iran comes back to almost five thousand years ago, our culture has more oral aspects and is relied on the customs of variety of live rituals, and transfers unwritten ancient heritage. The fact ...
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Although the history of writing and the application of writing in the present geographic boundaries of Iran comes back to almost five thousand years ago, our culture has more oral aspects and is relied on the customs of variety of live rituals, and transfers unwritten ancient heritage. The fact is that ancient Persian inscriptions date back almost to two thousand and five hundred years ago, and the writings of Elamite are several millennia older than that. Despite such ancientness in our writing tradition, we have to appeal to Sumerian and Akkadian writings in western Iran, in order to understand the ritual tradition, such as Nowruz
