bookandswordblogOops, my post on books I read in 2025 was missing the section on the ancient Near East! Eckart Frahm's learned overview of how the Assyrians got kings who destroyed them, a skinny trade book on the historical Jesus (and whether there was a historical Jesus), and a weighty companion to war in ancient Iran https://www.bookandsword.com/2026/01/03/books-read-in-2025/ #bookReview #iranistik #ancMedToot
Encyclopedia Iranica has published three new articles on a Sasanid king, a German architect, and a Qajar illuminator https://mailchi.mp/eifusa/uc-irvines-dr-samuel-m-jordan-center-for-persian-studies-new-home-for-encyclopdia-iranica-10984780 #iranistik #sassanid
Classic post: the Orlat battle plaques https://www.bookandsword.com/2023/05/20/the-orlat-battle-plaques/ #histodons #archaeology #iranistik #iranianStudies
Encyclopaedia Iranica Online was recently re-launched and the search seems to work better than before https://www.iranicaonline.org/ #iranistik #iranianStudies #shareGoodNewsToo
As far as I know, as of 2018 the only rural sites from Achaemenid Fars are one or two at Tang-e Bolaghi near Pasargadae (Tomb of Cyrus!). There are fields with Achaemenid potsherds which would be worth excavating but no excavated villages and ranches except Tang-e Bolaghi. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/tang-e-bolaghi-fars-sites-tb76-and-tb77-rural-settlements-of-the-achaemenid-and-post-achaemenid-periods/ #iranistik #iranianStudies #achaemenidEmpire
TANG-E BOLAGHI (FARS), SITES TB76 AND TB77: RURAL SETTLEMENTS OF THE ACHAEMENID AND POST-ACHAEMENID PERIODS - BAR Publishing
This volume contains the final report of a rescue excavation carried out in 2005 and 2006 in Fars, Southern Iran. The international rescue excavation programme was started in 2005, when it appeared that the area of Tang-e Bolaghi, a short distance from the important Achaemenid site of Pasargadae, was to be submerged by the creation […]
Fars/Persis in western Iran was the home province of the Achaemenid empire, with a similar land area to Newfoundland. When I received my PhD in 2018, how many rural sites from Achaemenid Fars had been excavated and published (orders of magnitude only, I will post the answer Wednesday). No web searching please! #iranistik #iranianStudies #ancientNearEast #archaeology
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Ingram BraunDie HNA über die Schulbildung des Schustersohns Georg Friedrich Grotefend aus Hann. Münden anläßlich des heutigen 250. Geburtstages. Sehr interessant, aber er erwähnt nicht einmal, daß es die Entzifferung der altpersischen #Keilschrift war, die ihn unsterblich gemacht hat. #OTD #Orientalistik #Altorientalistik #HannMünden #Göttingen #Iranistik 🏺 @ancientneareast @archaeodons @antiquidons
FID Nahost#FID on the Road
Some impressions of the Tehran #Book #Fair #Uncensored in #Copenhagen. The #FID team gained new insights into media and publications in the field of Iranian Studies.
#Bookfair #Tehran #Farsi #Literature #iranianstudies #Iranistik #FIDontheroad
