Iran
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Chogha Mish, Volume 2: Final Report on the Last Six Seasons of Excavations, 1972-1978 [Hardback]
Abbas Alizadeh (Author)
Regular Price: £70.00
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ISBN: 9781885923523
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 130
The present publication is the final report on the eleven seasons of excavations at Chogha Mish. In addition to the materials and records from Chogha Mish, Alizadeh uses the data available from the excavations of the neighboring sites of Chogha... .... Learn More -
Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Art [Hardback]
David Whitehouse (Author)
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ISBN: 9780872901582
Published by : Corning Museum of Glass
This catalogue contains 72 objects that are believed to be Sasanian or "post-Sasanian" (ie, made in Sasanian style in the centuries immediately following the fall of the Sasanid dynasty). The uncertainty about their origin derives from the fact th... .... Learn More -
The Persians [Paperback]
Maria Brosius (Author)
£27.99ISBN: 9780415320900
Published by : Routledge
Oxbow says: This newest volume in Routledge's Peoples of the Ancient World series, which has previously featured books on the Babylonians, Trojans and Egyptians, focuses on the Persians. Afforded a rather biased and unbalanced legacy by the Gr... .... Learn More -
The Origins of State Organizations in Prehistoric Highland Fars, Southern Iran: Excavations at Tall-e Bakun [Hardback]
Abbas Alizadeh (Author)
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ISBN: 9781885923363
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 128
The late prehistoric Bakun A culture in Fars is a major source of information on the initial development of the evolutionary path which vertical mobile pastoralists of highland Iran may have taken to develop state organisations. Long before the... .... Learn More -
Persian Fire: First World Empire [Hardback]
T. A. Holland (Author)
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ISBN: 9780385513111
Published by : Doubleday
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a si... .... Learn More -
The Saljuqnama of Zahir al-Din Nishapuri: A critical text making use of the unique manuscript in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society [Hardback]
Zahir Al-Din Nihapuri (Author); A. H. Morton (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780906094488
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
The Saljuqnama is a historical work written around AD 1188 for Tughril III, the last of the Saljuq dynasty to rule in Iran. Zahir al-Din Nishapuri hoped to win favour at the court by presenting his history of the great early Saljuq kings and th... .... Learn More -
Excavations at the prehistoric mound of Chogha Bonut, Khuzestan, Iran: Seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996 [Hardback]
Abbas Alizadeh (Author)
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ISBN: 9781885923233
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 120
This volume presents the results of three seasons of excavations at Chogha Bonut, Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran. Susiana was a major contributor to the cultural development of the ancient Near East... .... Learn More -
Early Urban Life in the Land of Anshan: Excavations at Tal-e Malyan in the Highlands of Iran [Hardback]
William M. Sumner (Author)
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ISBN: 9781931707459
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
This book provides summary data on the archaeological excavations of Banesh Period (ca. 3400-2600 B.C.) levels in Operation ABC at Tal-e Malyan, site of the Elamite royal city of Anshan. These levels cover the critical centuries when complex urban... .... Learn More -
Studies in Persian Art, Volume I [Hardback]
B. W. Robinson (Author)
Regular Price: £150.00
Special Price: £75.00
ISBN: 9780907132431
Published by : Pindar Press
Over the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia. His work on Persian manuscript illumination represents one of the most important contributions made in this century to the study of... .... Learn More -
Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539-1542) [Paperback]
Michel Membre (Author); A. H. Morton (Author)
Regular Price: £18.00
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ISBN: 9780906094433
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Persian Studies
The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia. .... Learn More
