Anabasis, vols. 14-15 Volumes 14-15 (2023-2024) of Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia, edited by Marek Jan Olbrycht, is out now. Several papers and reviews of the issue relate to ancient Iran: Michał Podrazik: Cyrus the Younger in Syria and Mesopotamia, Abrokomas, and the Great King’s…

The Late Babylonian worship scene at Persepolis Garrison, Mark B. 2025. The Late Babylonian worship scene at Persepolis. In: Benjamin Sass & Laura Battini (eds.), Mortals, Deities and Divine Symbols: Rethinking Ancient Images from the Levant to Mesopotamia. Studies Offered to Tallay Ornan…

Reaching the Persian Gulf from the Kur River Basin Matin, Emad. 2025. Reaching the Persian Gulf from the Kur River Basin: Patterns of an Intermittent Connectivity. East and West 65 (1). The paper at hand explores the connectivity between Central Fars and the Persian Gulf over a long period of time…

Studies on Middle Babylonian texts from Haft-Tappe Nikkhah Bahrami, Gita. 2025. Untersuchungen zu mittelbabylonischen Texten aus Haft-Tappe (dubsar 27). Münster: Zaphon. G. Nikkhah Bahrami’s study offers a comprehensive edition and cultural-historical and economic-historical investigation of the…

Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Kingship, War, and Spectacle on the Achaemenid Frontier Hyland, John O. 2025. Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Kingship, War, and Spectacle on the Achaemenid Frontier. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Persia’s Greek Campaigns offers a bold reassessment of the wars between the…

Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third Century Crisis Raja, Rubina & Eivind Heldaas Seland. eds. 2025. Palmyra, the Roman Empire, and the Third Century Crisis: Zooming in and Scaling up from the Evidence. Stuttgart: Steiner. The third century is often seen as a period of crisis in the Roman…

Sasanian Law in its Social Context Macuch, Maria. 2025. Sasanian law in its social context (Iranica 34). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Sasanian law has remained largely an unknown entity outside the specific field of Iranian Studies due to the immense difficulties involved in understanding the…

The Achaemenid-Zoroastrian Background of the Burning Bush Pericope Barena, Gad. 2025. ʾAhyh ʾAšr ʾAhyh: The Achaemenid-Zoroastrian Background of the Burning Bush Pericope. Revista Pistis & Praxis 17(3), 384–402. Various types of impact, assimilation, and engagement of certain redactional layers…

'Whose is Zoroastrianism?' A short blog I wrote on the occasion of the exhibition 'Cosmos / Memory / Scale' by Karl Singporewala, hosted at the @soasuni.bsky.social Gallery: www.arashzeini.com/whose-is-zor...

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Near Eastern Archaeology (vol. 88) In the various issues of volume 88 of Near Eastern Archaeology, several articles address topics in Iranian archaeology. The following list compiles all Iran-related contributions: Morteza Khanipour and Masashi Abe: From Seasonal Hunting Base to Permanent…

Indo-Iranian Journal 68, 3 Indo-Iranian Journal volume 68, issue 3 (November 2025) has been published (as always h/t @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social‬). Sims-Williams has an open access article on Bactrian: Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian in two scripts: Greek and Kushan. Indo-Iranian Journal.…

New issue of the Indo-Iranian Journal Vol. 68, No. 3 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Bernard, Chams Benoît. 2025. Like dust on the Silk Road: On the earliest Iranian and BMAC loanwords in Tocharian (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 27). Leiden: Brill. This volume is open access. www.biblioiranica.info/like-dust-on...

The Formation of the Sasanian Empire: Administration and Elites in Comparison with the Roman Empire Purwins, Nils. 2025. Der Aufbau des Sasanidenreiches: Administration und Eliten im Vergleich zum Römischen Reich (Ancient Iran Series 18). Leiden: Brill. The work provides in two volumes the first…

The Unfinished Story of the Babylonian Version of the Bīsotūn (Behistun) Inscription (DB Bab.) Hackl, Johannes. 2025. The Unfinished Story of the Babylonian Version of the Bīsotūn (Behistun) Inscription (DB Bab.). Iraq. Published online 2025:1-20. doi:10.1017/irq.2025.10033 This article revisits…

The Academic Research Segment The Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents The Academic Research Segment. The Academic Research Edition of the Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents 'a deep dive into the newest discoveries in the world of Zoroastrianism'. This is an online event…

Manichaeism and Church History Toft, Lasse Løvlund, Mattias Sommer Bostrup & René Falkenberg (eds.). 2025. On the Matter. Studies on Manichaeism and Church History Presented to Nils Arne Pedersen at Sixty-Five (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum – Analecta Manichaica 4). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. The…

The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context is the second round of the Pahlavi Papyri Workshop to be held in Innsbruck: Tuesday, 25 November – Wednesday, 26 November 2025. The workshop is organized by Bernhard Palme, Robert Rollinger and Touraj…

Chotano-Sogdica. Linguistic Studies on Sogdian and Khotanese Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Chotano-Sogdica. Linguistic Studies on Sogdian and Khotanese (Grammatica Iranica, 4). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Über ein halbes Jahrhundert lang, seit 1972, hat Nicholas Sims-Williams…

The Zoroastrian funeral ritual for living souls Nayebossadrian, Zhaleh. 2025. The Zoroastrian funeral ritual for living souls. Culture and Religion. 1-14. This study presents a comprehensive investigation into a Zoroastrian funerary rite, ‘Zīnda-ruwān-yaštan’, performed during their lifetime for…

Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis Salaris, Davide. 2025. ‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis. Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-8. This article redefines the concept of…

Parthica (vol. 26) Volume 26 of the journal Parthica (2024) contains several contributions of relevance to Iranian Studies. R. PALERMO - E. FRANCO - M. LA PORTA - C. RASMUSSEN: Exploring the Hellenistic period in North Mesopotamia landscape studies and excavations at Gird-I Matrab (Iraqi…

Zoroastrianism and contemporary philosophy Nolan, Daniel. 2025. Zoroastrianism and contemporary philosophy (Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Zoroastrianism is a religion with a long history, but it has been comparatively neglected by contemporary…

The Achaemenid Dynastic Myth and Jewish Scribes in the Late Persian Period Leuchter, Mark A.. 2025. An Empire Far and Wide: The Achaemenid Dynastic Myth and Jewish Scribes in the Late Persian Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book offers a new approach to evidence to examine Persian…

Iran and the Caucasus 29 (3) We are grateful to the staff at Yale Classics Library (@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social), who have been wonderful collaborators, sharing publication information with us: Volume 29, issue 3, of Iran and the Caucasus has now been published. The following articles relate to…

New issue of Iran and the Caucasus Vol. 29, No. 3 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @kolacekj.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @biblioiranica.info

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft The latest issue (175.2) of the legendary Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG) has been published and is accessible here. Research articles Die ZDMG und ihre „Kinder“. Über die Rolle wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften…

Calque and Loanword in Early ʿAbbāsid Time (750–800 CE) Abedi, Milad & Johannes Thomann. 2024. The Emergence of Arabic Scientific Terminology at the Eastern Contact Zone: Calque and Loanword in Early ʿAbbāsid Time (750–800 CE). Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 78 (4): 705-717. Superstratum…

Weaponry and a healed wound from the Parthian era Eghdami, Mohammad Reza, Majid Gholamzadeh Roudbordeh & Meysam Navaeiyan. 2025. Weaponry and a healed wound from the Parthian era (247 BCE to 224 CE): Insights from the Liyarsangbon cemetery, Guilan, Iran. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology…

Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran Cereti, Carlo Giovanni, Pierfrancesco Callieri & Vito Messina (eds.). 2025. Eranshahr. Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran (Collana Convegni 75). Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. This fourth volume of the Atlas of the…

From Alexander to Kanishka Bousdroukis, Apostolos. 2025. D'Alexandre à Kanishka : Interactions culturelles dans les fondations des successeurs d'Alexandre, du Proche-Orient à la vallée de l'Indus, aux époques hellénistique, romaine et arsacide : Volume I & Volume II (MDAFA 35). Athens: École…

The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I’s Seal Alibaigi, Sajjad. 2025. A Clue to a Puzzle: The Assyrian Provincial Seal of Surkh Dom-i Luri, a pattern for Darius I's Seal. Arta 2025.004. This short article examines the iconographic origins of the famous seal of…

A Military Origin for New Persian? Vaissière, Étienne de La. 2025. A military origin for New Persian? Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. Akadémiai Kiadó 78(3). 471–489. The question of the transition from Middle Persian to New Persian has been hotly debated. This article attempts to…

The first Hyrcanian tiger? Colburn, Henry P. 2025. The first Hyrcanian tiger? A unique figurine from Yarim Tepe, Iran. Anthropozoologica 60(10). 131–142. The article is also available here. Tigers (Panthera tigris Linnaeus, 1758) are rare in ancient art outside of India and Central Asia. In the…

Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future Brody, Lisa & Anne H. Chen (eds.). 2025. Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future. Turnhout. Brepols. This volume brings together an international and interdisciplinary host of scholars to reflect on the complicated legacies of exploration at the archaeological site…

Christian Slavery in Fars Stadel, Seth M. 2025. The legal constructions of Christian slavery in Fars at the end of Late Antiquity. Journal of Late Antiquity 18(2). 401–422. In the seventh and eighth centuries, the Church of the East community in Fars (southwest Iran) slowly developed a distinctive…

Fattori, Marco & Marco F. Ferrari. 2025. Zeus Pharnauas and Persian Mazdaism in Cappadocia. Iran 1–16.

Barnea, Gad. 2025. Some Achaemenid Zoroastrian echoes in early Yahwistic sources. Iran. 1–10.

Ahreman’s Ascent Panaino, Antonio. 2025. Ahreman’s ascent and the direction of his primordial aggression. With an excursus about the cosmic egg (Publications d’Études Indo-Iraniennes 4). Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg. This study analyses the problem of the trajectory taken by Ahreman during…

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An Old Khotanese Reader Sims-Williams, Nicholas, with contributions by Jonathan A. Silk. 2025. An Old Khotanese Reader: The Tale of Bhadra (Beiträge zur Iranistik 53). Wiesbaden: Reichert. This reader contains the complete text of the Buddhist ‘Tale of Bhadra’, the second chapter of the Old…

Zoroastrian Women Niechciał, Paulina. 2025. Zoroastrian Women in the United States of America: Practicing Lived Zoroastrianism in a Diaspora (The Vastness of Culture). Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press. This book examines how ancient Zoroastrianism is practiced in the US diaspora and how it…

30 Years of “Iran and the Caucasus”: A Proud Milestone International Conference Dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of Iran and the Caucasus 19-21 September, 2026Armenia The Editorial Board of Iran and the Caucasus, in collaboration with De Gruyter Brill, is pleased to announce an international…

Two articles by Arish Dastur Dastur, Arish. 2025. Imbued with the essence of the Gods: The intersection between Zoroastrian theology and the Old Avestan possessive adjectives derived from personal pronouns. Bulletin of SOAS, FirstView 1–34. The Gāϑās of Zaraϑuštra provide us with the Old Avestan…

Studia Persica 23 Afshin-Vafaie, Mohammad & Pejman Firoozbakhsh (eds.). 2024. Studia Persica in Memory of Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Yazdi, volume 23. Tehran: Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Endowment Foundation. The volume contains several interesting papers on different aspects of Iranian Studies. Here is the table…