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Khatchadourian, Lori. 2016. Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. What is the role of the material world in shaping the tensions and...
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The Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology (OPCA) 2016 will take place on April 15th-16th at Wolfson College, Oxford. It will be the fifth annual OPCA. A number of presentations relate to...
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Corpus Avesticum III: “Phonetics and Phonology in Avestan and Beyond” Paris, 25-26. April. 2016 The third meeting of the European research network Corpus Avesticum to be held in Paris, 25-26 April....
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Iran Nameh: New Series, Vol 1, No 1, Spring 2016. Here is the preface of editor (Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi) for this new series: With the publication of this issue, Iran Nameh is re-launched as an...
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The Bactrian archives: Reconstructing the lost history of Ancient Afghanistan A lecture by Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS) Date: May 12 Time: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Venue: Royal Asiatic Society 14...
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