AP. The passing of one of the greatest down home actors of all time -- Andy Griffith -- brings to mind that, sadly, many of the actors who lived in the fictional town of Mayberry, NC are no longer with us.
The Medes were an people of Indo-Iranian (Aryan) origin who inhabited the western and north-western portion of present-day Iran. By the 6th century BC (prior to the Persian invasion) the Medes were able to establish an empire that stretched from Aran (the modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan) to Central Asia and Afghanistan.
The articles, discuss such topics as Medes in Media, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia: Empire, Hegemony, Domination, or Illusion; rethinking early Greek-indigenous encounters in southern Italy; jewelery evidence and the lowering of South Italian ceramic chronology; and the organization of the mint in Chersonesus in Taurica in the first half of the fourth ...