The Iranian national epic, the #Shahnameh, was completed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1010. Perhaps the longest epic poem by a single author, #Ferdowsi's work took scattered bits of ancient history & myth from #Iran's pre-Islamic period and placed them into an easily-performed format.

national epic of Persia, the #Shahnameh (“Book of Kings”), is known to have been written by the poet #Ferdowsi, at the end of the tenth century A.D. But in the text Ferdowsi claims that the story was once lost and then reassembled out of fragments by a group of wise men

La Bibliothèque nationale d'Iran acquiert un exemplaire du Livre des Rois
#Iran #bibliothèques #Shahnameh #Ferdowsi
https://www.actualitte.com/article/patrimoine-education/la-bibliotheque-nationale-d-iran-acquiert-un-exemplaire-du-livre-des-rois/101994