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The Fifth Frava­har Award Cer­e­mo­ny Hon­or­ing Out­stand­ing Research in His­to­ry, Cul­ture, and Ancient Lan­guages in 2025

The fifth Frava­har Award cer­e­mo­ny was held on Thurs­day, March 6, 2025, at Iraj Hall. This event hon­ored out­stand­ing the­ses and dis­ser­ta­tions in the fields of his­to­ry, cul­ture, and ancient…

A Numis­mat­ic His­to­ry of Barikot, Ehsan Shavare­bi

The cat­a­logue of coins dis­cov­ered dur­ing the exca­va­tions at Barikot in the Swat Val­ley of Pak­istan from 1984 to 2022 has been pub­lished by Ehsan Shavare­bi, with con­tri­bu­tions from Luca…

Clos­ing Cer­e­mo­ny of the 5th Far­va­har Award­Honor­ing Out­stand­ing The­ses and Dis­ser­ta­tions in the Fields of His­to­ry, Cul­ture, and Ancient Lan­guages

📅 Thurs­day, March 6, 2025🕔 5:00 PM This event will fea­ture dis­tin­guished speak­ers: Dr. Moham­mad Shokri Foomeshi, author of Manichean Angels­Dr. Pezh­man Firouz Bakhsh, author of Pahlavi­atDr. Shirin Maz­da Pour,…

A. Belit­skaya, E. Popov, V. Silaev, V. Fil­ip­pov, A. Kha­zov, 2024, “Hel­met of the Migra­tion Peri­od from the Yuvanayag Mound Ceme­tery,” Rossi­jskaâ Arhe­ologiâ (Russ­ian Archae­ol­o­gy), No. 1, pp. 186–202.

The arti­cle intro­duces first results of the research on an iron hel­met found in 2022 at the Yuvanayag mound ceme­tery in the Vycheg­da Riv­er region, the Komi Repub­lic. The mound…

Book Review and Crit­ic Ses­sion: “Pre-Islam­ic Texts in the Library of Astan‑e Quds Raza­vi”

The Fac­ul­ty of Lit­er­a­ture and Human­i­ties of Fer­dowsi Uni­ver­si­ty of Mash­had will hold a book review ses­sion on Mon­day, March 26, 2025, at noon in the Rajaei Hall of the…

Con­fer­ence: “Recon­struct­ing Sog­di­ana: Archae­o­log­i­cal Dis­cov­er­ies and His­tor­i­cal Narratives“University of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley | April 11–12, 2025

The “Recon­struct­ing Sog­di­ana: Archae­o­log­i­cal Dis­cov­er­ies and His­tor­i­cal Nar­ra­tives” con­fer­ence will take place on April 11–12, 2025 (Far­vardin 22–23, 1404), from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM at 370 Dwinelle Hall, Uni­ver­si­ty…

The Fourth Con­fer­ence on Women, Fem­i­nin­i­ty, and Wom­an­hood in Ancient Ērān and Anērān, Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 23, 2025, at 18:00

The Cul­tur­al Foun­da­tion of Ancient Ērān and Anērān will hold the fourth ses­sion of its inter­na­tion­al vir­tu­al con­fer­ence series on the theme of “Women, Fem­i­nin­i­ty, and Wom­an­hood in Ancient Ērān…

Work­shop: “Peo­ple and Pow­ers: Rome, Per­sia, and Arme­nia in the Fifth Cen­tu­ry” at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lille, April 11, 2025

The aca­d­e­m­ic work­shop “Peo­ple and Pow­ers: Rome, Per­sia, and Arme­nia in the Fifth Cen­tu­ry” will take place on March 31, 2025 (April 11, 1404) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lille, Pont-de-Bois…

Thomas Ben­fey, 2025, “Mid­dle Per­sian doc­u­ments and the mak­ing of the Islam­ic fis­cal sys­tem: prob­lems and prospects,”  Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press, Pub­lished online.

This arti­cle charts a new course for the study of the Mid­dle Per­sian doc­u­ments from ear­ly Islam­ic Iran, which takes their ear­ly Islam­ic con­text into account more ful­ly than has…

The 22nd Annu­al Con­fer­ence of Iran­ian Archae­ol­o­gy

Date: Feb­ru­ary 23 to 25, 2025 (5th to 7th of Esfand, 1403)Loca­tion: Tehran, Nation­al Muse­um of Iran Con­fer­ence Hall At this annu­al con­fer­ence, archae­ol­o­gists will present the lat­est achieve­ments from…

The fifth issue of the Jour­nal of the Archae­o­log­i­cal Soci­ety of Iran has been pub­lished

This jour­nal is pub­lished in var­i­ous sec­tions, includ­ing the most impor­tant archae­o­log­i­cal events, a spe­cial issue on Elamite archae­ol­o­gy, arti­cles, and obit­u­ar­ies. In this issue, researchers such as Moham­mad Taghi…

The Mehr Shah­nameh Asso­ci­a­tion of Mazan­daran, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ancient Iran News, presents:

The Fifth Vir­tu­al Con­fer­ence on Shah­nameh Stud­ies Sun­day, March 218:30 Iran Time Speak­ers and Top­ics: Dr. Jalal Khaleghi Mot­lagh – Styles of Expres­sion in the Shah­nameh Dr. Mah­moud Omid­salar –…

Series of Meet­ings on the Lega­cy of Ira­nol­o­gists

First Ses­sion Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 19, 2025 |17:00 Series of Meet­ings on the Lega­cy of Ira­nol­o­gists First Ses­sion Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 19, 2025 |17:00 Speak­ers: Dr. Shahram Jalil­ian Dr. Roozbeh Zarrink­oub Dr. Meysam Labaf…

The 5th Zoroas­tri­an­ism Sum­mer School at SOAS Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don – 2025

The 5th Zoroas­tri­an­ism Sum­mer School, titled Zoroas­tri­an­ism in a Glob­al World, will be held from June 30 to July 4, 2025, at SOAS Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don. This pro­gram offers a…

Meh­di Abe­di­ni Araqi, Abol­fa­zl Nikoobayan, Moham­mad Keshavarz Divko­laee, 2024, ‘Emer­gency Con­ser­va­tion Report on the Sas­sanid Arch­es on the First Floor of the West­ern Side of the Espah­bad Khur­dish Arch-Struc­ture, Savad­k­ouh’ Danesh Hefazat va Mare­mat Jour­nal, Vol­ume 7, Issue 1, pp 88–109.

This arti­cle dis­cuss­es the con­ser­va­tion and restora­tion of the Espah­bad Khor­shid Arch- Struc­ture in Savad­k­ouh Coun­ty, Mazan­daran Province, after archae­o­log­i­cal exca­va­tions in 1402. This his­tor­i­cal arch, which dates back to…