aquetil

Updated: July 25, 2026

At the end of the last century, the Frenchman Aquetil Duperron brought to Europe an exact copy of the religious books of the Parsees, written in the language of Zoroaster. He translated them, and for sixty years all the savants had found in them the source of all their religious and philological notions of Iran.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century