Black Men In Persia

Oíd inscriptions anl carvings havo ;hown that there e.xisted in ancient Persia members of a race of blackskinned men. who possessed features resembling those of Africans. The origin of these people, as Tvell as their apparent disappearance in modern times, have furnished puzzling questions for ethnologists. Some have supposed that in prehistorie times the greater part of Southern Asia was oo cupied by a primitive black race, o. which only vestigee remained when the empires of Babylonia and Assyria aróse. Lately descendants of tho black men'who figured in the early history of Persia are believed to have been íound by the Russian explorer, Doctor Daniloff, dweiling amoiig the mountains near Shiraz, east of the Persian Gulf. These people. although they still form an independent group, mingle with the surrounding population, as in ancient times, and find employment at long distances from their home. Some of them are to be seen in the city of Teheran.