This site provides information on the Persepolis Fortification Archive project based at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Chicago's Persian heritage crisis
Chicago's Persian heritage crisis "(تاراج سرمايه باستانی ايران در شيکاگو in Persian) refers to a threat to seize invaluable Persian antiquities kept at the University of Chicago by the United States federal courts and also a threat to numerous other Persian antiquities kept in the Field museum in Chicago. It has been seen by Iranians as an example for the hostility of United States federal court system toward Iranian people and Persian heritage" Article in Wikipedia.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Biographical Sketch of David Malcolm Lewis
LEWIS, David Malcolm, (b. London, UK, 7.6.1928; d. Oxford, UK, 12.7.1994), distinguished historian and epigrapher of Greece in the fifth and fourth century BCE and, by extension, of the Achaemenid empire, by Amelie Kuhrt in Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Iranian Embassy Statement on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets
The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Amman. Statment on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets [Issued also at other Iranian Embassies]
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