South Korea, Seoul National Folk Museum - Traditional Korean Costumes of Silla Kingdom (57 BC – 935 AD) ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) A Love Letter to Korea The Persian War Machine: Organization and Command – Part I.The Early Rulers of Persia, Part II: The Kayanian Dynasty.Revealing the Real Prince of Persia and a King of Kings Who Inspired Modern Movies.There, the author sat down and dedicated an incredible 1,000 lines of poetic verse to describing life in Korea during the Silla dynasty. The whole story spans across hundreds of years and thousands of lines of poetry – but the really interesting part is somewhere around the middle. The Kushmaneh is a massive, epic poem about an evil creature with elephant tusks named Kus who terrorizes a Persian family throughout the generations. It’s one of the most popular stories to come out of the Persian Empire, one that’s been told and retold countless times in the 1,500 years since it was written. The story is called the Kushnameh, and, in itself, it’s hardly a new discovery. The Kushnameh: A 1,500-Year-Old Persian Epic About Korea And it might just call for a total rewrite of history. This new revelation shows Persia didn’t just make contact with Korea – these countries were intimately connected. Up until recently, we weren’t sure that the Persians of that time even knew Korea existed. Recently, historians took a second look an old Persian epic written around 500 AD and realized that, at the center of the tale, was the unusual story of a Persian prince marrying a Korean princess.

It’s a little-known story that could change the way we see our history. More than a thousand years before the first European explorer reached Korea’s shores, the Persian Empire was writing love stories about Korean princesses.

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