thanks for that second link as well. Didn't notice you'd just done that until after I dug it out. Remarkably, it was on the second page (of 250 entries each) in the GGG catalog, and is only from March of this year! I wonder if we can get some archaeology credits for digging up old FR topics?
archaeologist Says Central Asia Was Cradle Of Ancient Persian Religion
AFP/Yahoo | 3-18-2005
Posted on 03/19/2005 8:59:31 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366457/posts