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John Curtis, OBE, FBA, is Keeper of the Middle East Collections at the British Museum.
His publications include
Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia
(with N. Tallis, 2005),
Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum
(with J. E. Reade, 2005)
and
Ancient Persia
(2000).
St John Simpson is Assistant Keeper and Curator of Ancient Iran and Arabia,
also at the British Museum. He has excavated extensively in the Middle East and
Central Asia, including sites of all periods from prehistoric to recent times.
“The Persian Empire has never been out of the news, but since the great British Museum exhibi-
tion, and a spate of publications on the subject, it is more in the eyes and minds of archaeologists
and historians of the ancient world than hitherto. This welcome volume offers a major guide to
and an explanation of the whole phenomenon, from the acknowledged experts. It will be used
and referred to more than most such compendia, and for very good reason.”
Sir John Boardman, FBA, Lincoln Professor
Emeritus of Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford
“
The World of Achaemenid Persia
is a fine new survey of the first world empire, an empire which
linked Egypt and Greece with Central Asia and India. This series of essays, undertaken by some
50 new and established scholars, discusses the whole spectrum of the Achaemenids’ wealth, diver-
sity, culture, economy and society and will become a standard work on this important area of
study, a field as significant and exciting today as it has been in the past.”
Georgina Herrmann, OBE, FBA,
formerly Reader in Western Asiatic Archaeology, University College London
“This attractive and authoritative volume provides an unusually complete assessment of the mul-
tiple accomplishments of the Achaemenid Persians. The range of topics that is covered is quite
exceptional; and the long list of contributors includes most of the principal scholars who are
active in Achaemenid and ancient Persian studies at the present moment.”
David Stronach, Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology,
University of California, Berkeley
“This timely book represents an outstanding contribution to the state of research on the first
actual world empire in history. There can be no doubt that many of its thought-provoking articles
will make a strong impact on our views of ancient Persia, and of its society and culture.”
Josef Wiesehöfer, Professor of Ancient History, Kiel University
“The Achaemenid era constitutes the most brilliant period of Persia’s long history, a period dur-
ing which all of western Asia and part of North Africa were brought together in a vast empire
under the suzerainty of the Achaemenid kings. A great deal of research has gone into the elu-
cidation of the various aspects of the dynasty and the empire. It is wonderful now to have such
an up-to-date, competent and comprehensive account of the history and culture of Achaemenid
Persia between two covers.”
Ehsan Yarshater, Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Columbia University
THE WORLD OF
ACHAEMENID PERSIA
History, Art and Society in Iran and
the Ancient Near East
Edited by
John Curtis and St John Simpson
Proceedings of a conference at the British Museum
29th September–1st October 2005
Published by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation
Published in 2010 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
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Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
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Selection and editorial matter copyright
©
2010 John Curtis and St John Simpson
Individual chapters
©
2010 Kamyar Abdi, Bahram Adjerloo, Björn Anderson, Barbara R. Armbruster, Heather
D. Baker, Oric Basirov, Pierre Briant, Maria Brosius, Annie Caubet, Alireza Askari Chaverdi, M. R. Cowell, Vesta
Sarkhosh Curtis, Mehdi Daryaie, Albert de Jong, Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Lisbeth S. Fried,
Richard Nelson Frye, Mark B. Garrison, A. R. George, Hilary Gopnik, Thomas Harrison, Shalom E. Holtz, Despina
Ignatiadou, Bruno Jacobs, Anke Joisten-Pruschke, Deniz Kaptan, Alireza Khosrowzadeh, Philip G. Kreyenbroek,
Amélie Kuhrt, Judith A. Lerner, Yannick Lintz, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Parvin Loloi, John MacGinnis, Peter
Magee, Sabrina Maras, Bernadette McCall, S. La Niece, C. L. Nimchuk, Cameron A. Petrie, D. T. Potts, Shahrokh
Razmjou, Michael Roaf, Kourosh Roustaei, N. V. Sekunda, Mojgan Seyedin, Shapur Shahbazi, St J. Simpson,
Abolala Soudavar, Mohammad Hassan Talebian, Nigel Tallis, Christopher Tuplin, Melanie Wasmuth, Matt Waters,
Lloyd Weeks, Wu Xin, Sima Yadollahi, Ehsan Yaghmaee, Abbas Yalvaee, Mohsen Zaidi.
The right of John Curtis and St John Simpson to be identi ed as the editors of this work has been asserted by them
in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced,
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ISBN: 978 1 84885 346 1
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