Iran
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Ancient Iran and Its Neighbours: Local Developments and Long-range Interactions in the 4th Millennium BC [Hardback]
Cameron A. Petrie (Editor)
Regular Price: £65.00
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ISBN: 9781782972273
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: The British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monographs Series III
The fourth millennium BC was a critical period of socio-economic and political transformation in the Iranian Plateau and its surrounding zones. This period witnessed the appearance of the world’s earliest urban centres, hier... .... Learn More -
Central Zagros Archaeological Project: The Earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-E Abad and Jani [Hardback]
Roger Matthews (Editor); Wendy Matthews (Editor); Yaghoub Mohammadifar (Editor)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £30.00
ISBN: 9781782972235
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: CZAP Report
Volume: 1
Over a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene (c. 13,000-7000 BC), communities in south-west Asia developed from hunter-foragers to villager-farmers, bringing fundamental changes in all aspect... .... Learn More -
Neolithisation of Iran [Paperback]
Roger Matthews (Editor); Hassan Fazeli Nashli (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
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ISBN: 9781782971900
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology
The period c. 10,000-5000 BC witnessed fundamental changes in the human condition with societies across the Fertile Crescent shifting their alignment from millennia-old practices of seasonally mobile hunting and foraging to year-r... .... Learn More -
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning for the Middle East [Hardback]
John Curtis (Author); Neil MacGregor (Author); Irving Finkel (Translator)
£25.00ISBN: 9780714111872
Published by : British Museum Press
The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world. The Cylinder was inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of the Persian King Cyrus the Great (559−530BC) after he captured... .... Learn More -
Persia's Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran [Hardback]
H. Omrani Rekavandi (Author); T. J. Wilkinson (Author); J. Nokandeh (Author); Eberhard Sauer (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781842175194
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Monograph
Volume: 2
The Gorgan Wall stretches for over 200km through northern Iran. Guarded by over 30 forts, it is longer than Hadrians Wall and the Antonine Wall put together and is the most monumental ancient border defence system between Central Europe and Chi... .... Learn More -
King and Court in Ancient Persia, 559 to 331 BCE [Hardback]
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9780748641260
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
he first Persian Empire (559-331 BCE) was the biggest land empire the world had seen, and seated at the heart of its vast dominions, in the south of modern-day Iran, was the person of the Great King. Immortalized in Greek literatu... .... Learn More -
Nishapur Revisited: Stratigraphy and Ceramics of the Qohandez [Hardback]
Rocco Rante (Author); Annabelle Collinet (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781842174944
Published by : Oxbow Books
Nishapur in eastern Iran was an important Silk Road city, its position providing links to central Asia and China, Afghanistan and India, the Persian Gulf and the west. Despite previous excavations there are many unresolved questions surrounding... .... Learn More -
The Oxus Treasure [Paperback]
John Curtis (Author)
£5.00ISBN: 9780714150796
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
In May 1880 Captain F.C. Burton, a British political officer in Afghanistan, rescued a group of merchants who had been captured by bandits while travelling between Kabul and Peshawar. With them was a rich and impressive collection of gold and s... .... Learn More -
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Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book [Hardback]
Robert Hillenbrand (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597490
Published by : Pindar Press
Volume: 3
The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult to access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period, Iran domi... .... Learn More