- Roman Ghirshman
Roman Ghirshman ( _ru. Роман Михайлович Гиршман, "Roman Mikhailovich Girshman";
October 3 ,1895 –5 September 1979 ) was a Ukrainian-born French archeologist who specialized in ancientIran .A native of
Kharkov , Ghirshman moved toParis in 1917 to study Archeology and AncientLanguage s. He was mainly interested in the archeological ruins ofIran , specificallyTeppe Gian , Teppe Sialk,Bagram inAfghanistan ,Bishapur inFars , andSusa .In the 1930s, Girshman was the first to excavate
Teppe Sialk . His studies onChogha Zanbil have been printed in 4 volumes, and he also led excavation teams atKharg Island ,Iwan-i Karkheh , and theParthia n platforms inMasjed Soleiman , nearIzeh ,Khuzestan .With 300 papers and 20 books published, Ghirshman was one of the most prolific and respected experts on ancient Iran. Some of his works on
Susa have not even been published yet, but have served other archeologists such asHenri Gashe in subsequent follow-up studies in the 1960s and 70s in Iran.Books
* 1938, Fouilles de Sialk, prés de Kashan, 1933, 1934, 1937. Librairie Orientaliste
Paul Geuthner , Paris (in two volumes).
* 1954, Iran: from the earliest times to the Islamic conquest. Penguin books.
* 1970, Le Pazuzu et les fibules du Luristan. Impr. Catholique, Beirut.
* 1971, Persia, the immortal kingdom. (Coauthors: Minorsky, V.F., andSanghvi, R. , Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society.
* 1976, L' Iran des origines à l'islam. - Nouv. éd. rev. et mise à jour. Nouv. éd. rev. et mise à jour., Paris.
* 1977, L' Iran et la migration des Indo-Aryens et des Iraniens. Leiden.
* 1979, Tombe princière de Ziwiyé et le début de l'art animalier scythe. Soc. Iranienne pour la Conservation du Patrimoine, Paris.
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