Box Elder News Journal | 1908-02-06 | Page 7 | Black People in Persia |

Type	issue
Date	1908-02-06
Paper	Box Elder News Journal
Language	eng
City	Brigham City
County	Box Elder
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Article Title	Black People in Persia
Type	article
Date	1908-02-06
Paper	Box Elder News Journal
Language	eng
City	Brigham City
County	Box Elder
Page	7
OCR Text	BLACK IN PERSIA PERSIA the ther ar presence Is a pule pu le to learned ethnologist Ethnol Ethro logist s one ut of the research men of tho the carnegie institute at washington now traveling in the east has mado made an interesting report with reference to the existence in ancient persia of 0 a race of black skinned men who possessed features resembling those ot of africans afric ans the origin of these people as aa well wel is As their apparent cisa in modern times have farril furnished shed puzzling quest questions lon for ethnologists for a great many some have supposed that 1 4 prehistoric stora tams the greater part of southern asia was occupied by a primitive black race ot of which only vestiges remained when tho the empires of 0 babylon and assy assyria ria arose lately descendants ot of the black man who figured in the early history of persia are believed to have been found by the russian explorer dr Danl daneloff loff dwelling among the mountains pear shiras east of the persian Pers lafi gulf these people although they still form an independent group mingle with tho surrounding population as in ancient times and find employment at long distances from their homo home some ot of them are to be seen in the city of teheran
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