Herzfeld Ernst E. Iran in the Ancient East

Routledge, 2006. — 240 p. — (Peoples of the ancient world). — ISBN 978–0–415–32089–4. European history describes the Persian empires mainly through the history of the Greeks and Romans who regarded them as politically, culturally, and socially inferior. In short, to them the Persians were barbarians. Yet this Indo-European civilisation was one of the most highly developed of...

London: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd., 2010. — 626 p. Proceedings of a conference at the British Museum 29th September–1st October 2005. The conference was organized by the British Museum and the Iran Heritage Foundation, in association with the Persian Cultural Foundation and with additional support provided by the Soudavar Memorial Foundation. This volume is dedicated to Neil...

California and New York: Mazda Publishers in assosiations Bibliotheca Persika, Costa Mesa, 1992. — 251 p. Dr. Dandamayev brings his wealth of knowledge of Babylonian documents to bear on the history and culture of Achaemenid Babylonia. This book is designed to make the benefit og his scholaships more easily available to students and scholars in the West.

London – New York: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, 2009. – 248 p. – (International Library of Iranian Studies. Vol. 8). ISBN: 978-1-85043-898-4 The Sasanians were the last of the ancient Persian dynasties, and the largest empire to espouse Zoroastrianism, before the encounter with the Arabs swept away the pre-Islamic institutions. Using...

Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 857 p. The third volume, published in two parts, is an account of every aspect of Iranian civilisation from the death of Alexander in 323 BC to the advent of Islam in the seventh century AD. This complex period, of major importance in Iranian history and extending for almost a thousand years, encompasses the reigns of the Seleucid, the...

Очерки по истории культуры. – М.: Наука, 1969. – 240 с. Книга В. Г. Луконина «Культура сасанидского Ирана» посвящена вопросам становления иранской государственности, истории культуры и религии. На основе типологического анализа материалов сасанидских скальных рельефов и сасанидских монет автор делает ряд новых интересных выводов.