Cities, Trade, and Roads
Two new volumes of Anabasis are out; vols. 12–13 (2021-2022) are special issues with thematic papers edited by Marek Jan Olbrycht and Sabine Müller: Cities, trade, and roads: From the Mediterranean to...
View ArticleDeciphering the Illegible
Macuch, Maria & Arash Zeini (eds.). 2024. Deciphering the illegible: Festschrift in honour of Dieter Weber (Iranica 33). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. The commemorative publication Deciphering...
View ArticleYahwism under the Achaemenid Empire
Barnea, Gad & Reinhard G. Kratz (eds.). 2024. Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire: Professor Shaul Shaked in memoriam (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 548). Berlin:...
View ArticleTwo Memoirs
Iranian Studies, the subject matter of this bibliographic blog, is not an easily defined field. It seems to me that we often mean the study of Zoroastrianism or ancient Iran, when we post about Iranian...
View ArticleA Historian’s Memoir
The Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity (OCLA) invites to a celebration of Professor Dame Averil Cameron’s latest book: Cameron, Averil. 2024. Transitions: A historian’s memoir (Studi e Testi Tardoantichi...
View ArticleThe Six Corners of the World
Casari, Mario. 2023. Šeš taraf-e donyā «Les six côtés du monde»: Anthropologie de la narration dans la littérature persane classique (Cahier de Studia Iranica 65). Leuven: Peeters. This volume contains...
View ArticleIran, Volume 62, Issue 2 (2024)
The table of contents of the latest issue (62/2) of the journal Iran:
View ArticleDerbent: What Persia Left Behind
Date: 26 November 2024Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pmVenue: SOAS, Phillips BuildingRoom: Djam Lecture TheatreEvent type: Film screening followed by Q&A with the director & reception “Derbent: What...
View ArticleThe Bundahišn
Malandra, William W. 2024. The Bundahišn. Translated with Commentary (Monograph Series 68). Leesburg VA: The Journal of Indo-European Studies. The Bundahišn was a sort of final clearinghouse for...
View ArticleLocating al-Qadisiyyah
Deadman, W.M. et al. 2024. Locating al-Qadisiyyah: Mapping Iraq’s most famous early Islamic conquest site. Antiquity, FirstView, 1–8. The Darb Zubaydah (DZ) is a Hajj pilgrimage road stretching from...
View ArticleThe King’s Road
On the occasion of the book’s paperback edition, which has just been published: Wen, Xin. 2023. The king’s road: Diplomacy and the remaking of the Silk Road. Princeton: Princeton University Press. The...
View ArticleZoroastrianism in India and Iran
Buhler, Alexandra. Zoroastrianism in India and Iran: Persians, Parsis and the flowering of political identity. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. This book examines the Zoroastrian community in the late...
View ArticleElite Mortuary Culture at Susa
Wicks, Yasmina. 2024. Elite Mortuary Culture at Susa: An Analysis of Early Middle Bronze Age Clay Coffin Burials. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. A crucial task of archaeological research today is to...
View ArticleIndogermanische Forschungen
The recent issue of Indogermanische Forschungen (129/2024) contains several interesting papers.
View ArticleMani’s Living Gospel and the Ewangelyōnīg Hymns
Shokri-Foumeshi, Mohammad (ed.). 2025. Mani’s Living Gospel and the Ewangelyōnīg Hymns. Edition, Reconstruction and Commentary with a Codicological and Textual Approach Based on Manichaean Turfan...
View ArticleMannea and beyond
Naseri, Reza, Mehrdad Malekzadeh, Andrea Cesaretti & Roberto Dan. 2024. Mannea and beyond: A study of Iron Age and later pottery from Zanjan in the National Museum of Iran. Antilia. The volume...
View ArticleHerodotus: Book III
Longley, Georgina. 2024. Herodotus: Book III. London: Bloomsbury. This accessible edition for students presents Herodotus as one of the most fascinating and colourful authors from the ancient world....
View ArticleCosmos, society, religion
Maurer, Moritz. 2024. Kosmos, Gesellschaft, Religion: Zoroastrische und manichäische Sozialordnungsdiskurse in der langen Spätantike (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 80). Berlin: De...
View ArticleThe Medieval Persian Gulf
Ulrich, Brian. 2023. The Medieval Persian Gulf. Leeds: Arc-Humanities. The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discovery of oil....
View ArticleSocial Biographies of the Ancient World
The latest issue of Journal of Ancient History (volume 12, issue 2) is a special issue: Social Biographies of the Ancient World with Jason M. Silverman as guest editor. Below is the list of articles:
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