"But as a troop of pedlars, from Cabool, Cross underneath the Indian Caucasus, That vast sky-neighbouring mountain of …"

"After this I proceeded to the city of Barwan, in the road to which is a high mountain, covered with snow and exceedin…"

"It is entirely likely that the name Hindu Kush came about as a sarcastic twist on the older name Hindu Koh, viz. on t…"

"Whenever I visited Mount Takakuma I found myself thinking about Plato’s allegory of the cave in The Republic. He tell…"

"Western Asia may be roughly divided into three belts of country, the Mountains or high Table-lands, the Fertile Lands…"

"The earliest home of men in this great arena of Western Asia is a borderland between the desert and the mountains, a …"

"The names of the ancient cities in the fertile crescent ring out the beginning of the known history of mankind: , , B…"

"The Fertile Crescent has always been in close touch with other parts of the Middle East: Turkey, Iran, the , and Egyp…"

"The Fertile Crescent is considered the first of at least seven centers of agriculture origin in the world (Smith 1998…"

"“in the denomination of Ariana, which became known to the Greeks after the Macedonian conquest of the eastern territo…"