Iran/Persia: A beheading, possibly depicting the execution of the Turanian ruler Afrasiab by the Iranian king. Illustration from an early 14th century Shahnameh, Isfahan. The Shahnameh or Shah-nama ('The Book of Kings') is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Iran and related Perso-Iranian cultures. With around 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells the mythical and to some extent the historical past of Greater Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.

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