Iran
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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 -
Later Village Period Settlement Development in the Karun River Basin, upper Khuzestan Plain, Greater Susiana, Iran [Paperback]
Abbas Moghaddam (Author)
£43.00ISBN: 9781407309323
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study re-evaluates the previous understanding of the Later Village Period in Greater Susiana (southwestern Iran) by focusing mostly on settlement and landscape. This is addressed from the perspective of the small and previous... .... Learn More -
Writing Ancient Persia [Paperback]
Thomas Harrison (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9780715639177
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
The history of Achaemenid Persia the empire of Cyrus the Great, Darius and Xerxes has largely been rewritten in the last thirty years. Inspired by new sources of information, and by a determination to see Persia in its own terms, historians h... .... Learn More -
Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia [Hardback]
M. Rahim Shayegan (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780521766418
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book undertakes a thorough investigation of the diverse range of written, numismatic, and archaeological sources in order to reassess Sasanian political ideology and its sources and influences in the ideologies of the Achaemenid Persian Em... .... Learn More -
Elam and Persia [Hardback]
Mark B Garrison (Author);Javier Alvarez-Mon (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781575061665
Published by : Eisenbrauns
The late 7th and 6th centuries BC were a period of tremendous upheaval and change in ancient western Asia, marked by the destruction of the Assyrian Empire, the rise and collapse of the Neo-Babylonian state, and the stunning ascent of what was ... .... Learn More -
Persian Invasions of Greece [Hardback]
Arthur Keaveney (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781848841376
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
This new account of the Persian Wars takes a traditional narrative approach, relying heavily on Herodotus and retaining much of his dramatic flavour. The story is however, not told solely from a Greek perspective, and in contextualising the ev... .... Learn More -
Tombes D'Epoque Parthe: Chantiers de La Ville Des Artisans [Paperback]
Remy Boucharlat (Author)
£99.00ISBN: 9789004211346
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Among the hundred or so tombs of post-Alexander date excavated by Roman Ghirshman between 1947 and 1952 on the mound of the Ville des Artisans at Susa, six are remarkable for their construction and burial contents. Shortly before his death in ... .... Learn More -
Iran 48 (2010) [Paperback]
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£35.00Published by : British Institute of Persian Studies
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Mani's Psalms: Middle Persian, Parthian and Sogdian Texts in the Turfan Collection [Paperback]
Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (Author);Enrico Morano (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9782503528878
Published by : Brepols
This edition contains the texts of two Manichaen cycles of hymns of praise in Middle Persian, Parthian and Sogdian, all purpoting to be by Mani himself, along with English translations. .... Learn More -
Ctesias' History of Persia: Tales of the Orient [Hardback]
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780415364119
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. It was completed at a time when the Greeks were fascinated by Persia and seems very much to cater to contemporary interest in Persian wealth and opul... .... Learn More