Edited by: John Curtis
Published by: Iran Heritage Foundation
The Iran Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the recent publication of a book entitled Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period, edited by John Curtis, the Academic Director of IHF. The book is published by James Clarke & Co and has been sponsored by IHF.
The publication has an appreciation and biography of Terence Mitchell, Keeper of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum 1985-1989, as well as articles by: Paul Collins on ‘Five unpublished Persepolis relief fragments in the Ashmolean Museum’; John Curtis on ‘Where did the Persian kings live in Babylon?’; Christopher Walker on ‘The use of seals in Babylonia under the Achaemenids’; Alan Millard on ‘An Iranian in the court of King Nebuchadnezzar’; Terence Mitchell on ‘Biblical archaeology in the Persian period’, Shahrokh Razmjou on ‘Textual connections between the Cyrus Cylinder and the Bible with particular reference to Isaiah’; Prudence Harper on ‘Interpreting Sasanian beards: significant images in an interconnected world’; and Mahnaz Moazami on ‘Sasanian-Zoroastrian intellectual life in the 5th and 6th centuries AD’.