According to the 2016 book on dog breeds published by the American Kennel Club, experts believe the Bergamasco pictured here originated in Persia… there is also the Persian Greyhound (Saluki) http://www.dogs-wallpapers.eu/dog/winter-persian-greyhound.jpg

[pic American Kennel Club: Purina...for educational purposes only]

A study by Lazaridis et al. in a 2017 article by Nature claimed that: 

“The origins of the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean cultures have puzzled archaeologists for more than a century. We have assembled genome-wide data from 19 ancient individuals, including Minoans from Crete, Mycenaeans from mainland Greece, and their eastern neighbours from southwestern Anatolia. Here we show that Minoans and Mycenaeans were genetically similar, having at least three-quarters of their ancestry from the first Neolithic farmers of western Anatolia and the Aegean, and most of the remainder from ancient populations related to those of the Caucasus and Iran. However, the Mycenaeans differed from Minoans in deriving additional ancestry from an ultimate source related to the hunter–gatherers of eastern Europe and Siberia, introduced via a proximal source related to the inhabitants of either the Eurasian steppe or Armenia. Modern Greeks resemble the Mycenaeans, but with some additional dilution of the Early Neolithic ancestry. Our results support the idea of continuity but not isolation in the history of populations of the Aegean, before and after the time of its earliest civilizations.”

…as I have discussed here and in my 2017 dissertation, contrary to Mainstream education’s dumbing down textbooks, Iranians are not the “other” to the Greeks…

[pic wikipedia: “PUCK was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918”…for educational purposes only]

In a letter to his son during an official visit to Russia in 1872, Union Army General William T. Sherman makes reference to the Persians and Cyrus the Great… indeed, the Persian king Cyrus is larger than life… in reading the below excerpt, keep an eye out for Gen. Sherman’s characterization of American labor at the time…

“St. Petersburg,

May 25, 1872 Saturday

Dear Tommy,

At Moscow I received your letter of April 14, and have postponed answering till I could find a leisure hour….

I have bought for the girls, what girls usually value most -- viz jewelry, and for your Mama I have ordered a marble bust of myself, as well as a cameo. -- so that to finish the family I must get something for you & Cumpy -- I thought for you a box of Mathematical instruments of the best quality. Such as are used by Engineers and Architects. I also thought at Geneva or London I would buy for myself a new good plain watch -- and give you or Cumpy my present one which is really a first class gold watch. -- Now if there be anything special you prefer, not too costly, write me, so that I can hear at Paris and I will consult your preference. Articles most useful are found in England -- Italy excels in jewelry & statuary -- Paris is ribons, silk, and ladies dresses, but in articles of real value & use the English surpass all nations. In time we will do as well but as yet labor is too costly in America….

Tifles was the old capitol of Georgia but now all of the Caucases embracing Caucassia, Georgia, Immeritia, Mingulia, Gouriel, and the Daghestan are swallowed up by Russia which bear the same relation to the Old World, that the United States does to Mexico, and the truth is that these small states were quarreling & fighting with each other so much that it was a good thing for Russia to absorb them, for now they have good roads, and live in peace instead of eternal war. We found Tifles quite a lively town, but of a most miscellaneous people. Persians, Arabs & Cincasians, besides some 15 or more other nationalities -- but all these will in a few years assimilate in manner & dress with the Russia….

We left Tifles one beautiful morning … which brought us to a station on the very summit of the Caucasus Range, close by the Kosbek 15000 feet high -- The Road was a McAcam Military Road and a good one. The Post stations are not provided with beds or anything to eat -- but we had brought[] a basket of bread[] & meat along, and got a tea urn to work which gave us hot tea which the russians drink hot out of tumblers. It was real Cold. Mountains all about were Covered with Snow, and the ground froze hard that night. We managed to start a little fire in a stove and slept that night in straw, brought from the hay pile, -- and that in the land of Cyrus….”

[pic caucasushealing: Gergeti Trinity Church near Mount Kazbek (Kosbek) in Georgia… for educational purposes only]

In a 2014 book entitled Latinitas in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Its Impact on the Development of Identities, Giovanna Siedina wrote the following about the influence of Iranian Sarmatians:

During 15^th century, “the Lithuanian and Polish Jagiellonian dynasty, the most important for centuries in Central and Eastern Europe, sought to create a single state which also included the Kingdom of Hungary and which would bring together even if for a short time Slavic and non Slavic peoples from the Adriatic to the Baltic seas and extend eastwards to act jointly as a bulwark for Christendom. This is not the right place to expand on the extraordinary renewal of classical culture between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that led not only to this culture being assimilated into the Polish-Lithuanian respublica, but also to a complex process of identity from which several nations would then develop. An important key to these developments was a sense of being heirs and descendants of the ancient Sarmatian knights, who embodied the ideals of both the medieval knight and those of the ancient warlike civilization described in the classics.”

Yet, mainstream history educational sources OMIT or FAIL TO IDENTIFY Iranian peoples such as Sarmatians … people are doomed when history is erased—something that is new to unsuspecting Americans… 

[pic pinterest: Sarmatian helmet…for educational purposes only]