![]() ![]() Other scholars date him to the 7th and 6th centuries BC as a near-contemporary of Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great. Some scholars, using linguistic and socio-cultural evidence, suggest a dating to somewhere in the second millennium BC. There is little scholarly consensus on when he lived. He was a native speaker of Avestan and lived in the eastern part of the Iranian plateau, but his exact birthplace is uncertain. He is said to have been an Iranian prophet who founded a religious movement that challenged the existing traditions of ancient Iranian religion, and inaugurated a movement that eventually became a staple religion in ancient Iran. Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra, is regarded as the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. ![]()
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