The Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, in collaboration with the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, is honoured to host the first “Conference on Rudaki and Cultural Connections Between Iran and…

This book studies, for the first time, the Maʿnī-yi Vahman Yasht , the New Persian version of the Zand ī Wahman Yašt , the most important Zoroastrian text in apocalyptic genre. Through offering a…

2-7 June 2025   The International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East has been organised since 1998 by the scientific community of scholars working on and in the Near…

The ongoing story of Iranian studies at UCLA — a vibrant intellectual pillar of the university for more than 60 years — began a new chapter on Oct. 17. Faculty…

Mehdi Rahbar, 2025, “The Sasanian Palace of Bandiãn Dargaz,” Caspian, Year 2025, Issue No. 4, pp. 173-188. Abstract A series of architectural spaces were discovered from the excavation of Tepe…

The second issue of Hunara for the year 2024 has been published as an Open Access journal. This special issue, titled Ancient Iran and the South Caucasus, was edited by…

Finally, the proposed Gilaki alphabet and script called “Gileh Khat” is published in the “Farhang-e Ilia” publication. In this work, an attempt is made to present a uniform and expressive…

The conference “Sasanian Iran: Once Upon a Time” will focus on the latest research findings and scholarly achievements concerning the Sasanian and Post-Sasanian periods. It is organized by the Institute…

A lecture by Aleksandr Naymark, Hofstra UniversityThe second lecture in the winter term series on the history and culture of the Zerafshan Valley will take place on December 17th, 2024,…

Ruben Nikoghosyan, The Middle Persian Text Mādayān ī Wīrāzagān: Contextualizing its Role in the Zoroastrian Literary Tradition, Azhyar Foundation for Ancient Iranian Studies, January 6th, 2024.The Mādayān ī Wīrāzagān (Wīrāzagān),…