Posted on 01 June 2009. Tags: afrasiab, cameron douraghy, comic book, hyperwerks, kai kavous, persian literature, princess of the white castle, rostam, rostam tales from the shahnameh, roudabeh, shah nameh, shahnameh, shahnameh project, sohrab, soudabeh, tahmineh, zal

The Shahnameh (Book of Kings), was written by Persian literary-master: Ferdosi (also spelled Ferdowsi). The Persian literary masterpiece, amassed over several decades in the tenth and eleventh centuries, is a collection of some 60,000 couplets full of Persian Miniatures created to illustrate scenes from the Persian epic, and has now reemerged in the form of HYPERWERKS‘ highly-entertaining comic book series: Rostam – Tales from the Shahnameh.
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Posted on 01 June 2009. Tags: afrasiab, cameron douraghy, comic book, hyperwerks, kai kavous, persian literature, princess of the white castle, rostam, rostam tales from the shahnameh, roudabeh, shah nameh, shahnameh, shahnameh project, sohrab, soudabeh, tahmineh, zal

Rostam: Tales from the Shahnameh
The Shahnameh (Book of Kings), was written by Persian literary-master: Ferdosi (also spelled Ferdowsi). The Persian literary masterpiece, amassed over several decades in the tenth and eleventh centuries, is a collection of some 60,000 couplets full of Persian Miniatures created to illustrate scenes from the Persian epic, and has now reemerged in the form of HYPERWERKS‘ highly-entertaining comic book series: Rostam – Tales from the Shahnameh.
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Posted on 06 May 2009. Tags: animation, comic book, ferdosi, ferdowsi, hyperwerks, persian literature, rostam, rostam tales from the shahnameh, sohrab
Check out this animated clip from the comic book series Rostam: Tales From the Shanameh by Hyperwerks.
The Shahnameh (book of kings) which was “written by Ferdowsi over 1000 years ago [is about a] Perisan mythological hero, Rostam [who] battles his son, Sohrab.”
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Posted in Art & Design, Books, Entertainment, Features, History, Iran & Iranians, Persian