The Study of Ancient Iran in the Twentieth Century
by Touraj Daryaee
Abstract: This survey article accounts for the developments made in Iranian historiography in the 20th century, focusing on developments in understanding around philology, religious history, archaeology and material culture. Daryaee shows that the oscillations of contemporary Iranian politics had a negative impact on scholars’ capacity to delve into the ancient past, but that an increasing understanding of languages such as Aramaic, Elamite and Babylonian increasingly displaced Greek-centric accounts of the Achaemenid period in particular.
Article in Iranian Studies, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2009, pp. 579-589.
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