<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/10013278" mdate="2023-10-05 00:00:00"> <author>Behzad Moeini Sam and Sara Mohammadi Avandi and Fatemeh Farhadi</author> <title>The Duties of the Immortals and the Name of Anau&amp;scaron;a or Anu&amp;scaron;iya</title> <pages>620 - 625</pages> <year>2023</year> <volume>17</volume> <number>10</number> <journal>International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10013278</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/202</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>One of the reasons for the success of the Achaemenids was the innovation and precise organization used in the administrative and military fields. Of course, these organizations had their roots in the previous governments that had changed in these borrowings. The units of the Achaemenid army are also among the cases that have their origins in the ancient East. In this article, the attempt is to find the sources of the Immortal Army based on the writings of old and current authors and archaeological documents, and the name mentioned by Herodotus. Of course, linguistic sources have also been used for better conclusions than the indicated sources. This paper emphasizes linguistic data to lead to a better deduction. Thus, it was included that about &amp;lsquo;anau&amp;scaron;a&amp;rsquo; is more probable than anu&amp;scaron;iya.</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 202, 2023</index> </article>