由此，“Parthian shot”常用来指“回马射，回马枪”。 随着岁月的流逝，“Parthian shot”渐渐被写作“parting shot”，其军事意义也湮没于人们的日常生活中，现常用来指“一方在争吵中居于劣势时，扔下一句戗人语（颇有影响力的回击语/ 余味 ...

TEHRAN - Archaeologists have launched a major effort to document and preserve the looted Gour-e Kafari Cemetery, which is ...

PARTICLE physics has not had a big discovery since the top quark, the heaviest of the observed fundamental constituents of matter, was spotted in 1995 by two experiments at Fermilab, America's ...

UNLESS creatures such as yeti and Bigfoot turn out to be real, the only kind of human in the modern world is Homo sapiens. But that is only recently true. For most of Homo sapiens’s 200,000-year ...

The Parthian Fortresses of Nisa consist of two tells of Old and New Nisa, indicating the site of one of the earliest and most important cities of the Parthian Empire, a major power from the mid 3rd ...

A 2,000-year-old fortress built on a mountainside in what’s now Iraqi Kurdistan could be part of a lost royal city called Natounia.

At first glance, the letter reproduced in figure 1 appears to be extraordinary: Sir Richard Owen, the greatest comparative anatomist of the Victorian age, stalwart opponent of transmutation, said ...

Yet Parthian has much to rejoice as it hits 30: it made the Nibbies’ Small Press of the Year shortlist in 2019 and is expecting big things from this year’s cohort of books, ...