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…

East and West (vol. 64) The latest volume of East and West contains several interesting articles, some of which deal with aspects of ancient Iran. M. Minardi, A. Bekbauliev: Report on the First Campaign of Excavations of 2023 at Bazar-kala, with Additional Considerations on the Urbanism of Ancient…

Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World Peacock, Andrew (ed.). 2025. Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World. London: Bloomsbury. Most of the historiography of the Iranian world focuses on interactions and migrations between Iran, Central Asia and India. Nonetheless,…

Kingship and Empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the Early Seleucids Harrison, Stephen. 2025. Kingship and Empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the Early Seleucids. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. This book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis…

Studia Iranica (52/2) The new issue of Studia Iranica is out (volume 52, issue 2). Here is the table of contents: En hommage à notre collègue et ami, cofondateur et premier codirecteur de Studia Iranica, membre du comité de rédaction, Philippe Gignoux 1er mars 1931, Solaize - 21 septembre 2023,…

Manichaeism: Encounters with Death Towers, Susanna. 2025. Manichaeism: Encounters with death. Studies in the material, spiritual and parabolic body (Studia Traditionis Theologiae 61). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. Born in Persian Mesopotamia in the year 232 CE, the self-proclaimed prophet Mani…

Amélie Kuhrt Briant, Pierre. 2025. Amélie Kuhrt. 23 September 1944 – 2 January 2023. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy 22: 483-503. Amélie Kuhrt, eminent historian of the Ancient Near East, and more specifically renowned for her teaching at University College London, for…

An Achaemenid Column Base from Farouq Shobairi, S.A. 2025. An Achaemenid Column Base from Farouq. ARTA 2025.003. This paper examines a column base from the Achaemenid period (ca. 550–330 BC), discovered in the village of Farouq, approximately 20 kilometers northeast of Persepolis, and provides a…

Reflections on the Tapestry of Family and Household in Ancient Iran Jahangirfar, Milad (ed.). 2025. Reflections on the Tapestry of Family and Household in Ancient Iran (Studia Persica 6). Bologna: Persiani Editore. This volume offers a collection of ten articles focusing on various aspects of…

Deciphering Arachosian Tribute at Persepolis Barnea, Gad. 2025. Deciphering Arachosian Tribute at Persepolis: Orthopraxy and Regulated Gifts in the Achaemenid Empire. Religions 16(8): 965. Inscribed trays, plates, mortars, and pestles made of beautiful green chert bearing formulaic administrative…

Women in Cultic Functions in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon Debourse, Céline. 2025. Women in Cultic Functions in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon. In: Shawna Dolansky & Sarah Shectman (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East,…

District Twelve Ferrario, Marco. 2025. District Twelve. Northeastern Central Asia From Cyrus to Antiochos: Local Histories of a World Empire (Ancient Iran Series, 19). Leiden: Brill. This book offers, at the same time, an imperial history of a region (Northeastern Central Asia under the…

Hunara Hunara: Journal of Ancient Iranian Arts and History, published by Casa Editrice Persiani in Bologna, Italy, is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal, publishing scholarly articles under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Here is the ToC of the latest issue (3/1): Patryk Skupniewicz: The Scene of Bear…

The Zurkhāneh Rochard, Philippe. 2025. The Zurkhāneh and its milieu: A study of traditional athletics in Iran (Ilex Series). Boston: Harvard University Press. The athletes known in Iran as pahlavāns and the domed structure, the zurkhāneh, where they congregate to practice ritualized martial arts,…

Miscellanea Epigraphica Susiana II Fattori, Marco. 2025. Miscellanea Epigraphica Susiana II: Addenda et corrigenda. Arta 2025.002. In this article I propose some corrections and additions to my previous contribution Miscellanea Epigraphica Susiana, made possible by the recent publication of a book…

Georges Dumézil’s tripartite theory Redard, Céline (ed.). 2025. ). L’Inde et l’Iran dans la théorie trifonctionnelle de Georges Dumézil (1898-1986) (Publications d’Etudes Indo-Iraniennes 3). Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg. www.biblioiranica.info/georges-dume...

New Trismegistos Online Publication No. 10: Punctuation, Iota Adscript, and Nu-movable in Ancient Literary Bookrolls by William A. Johnson www.trismegistos.org/top/ @trismegistostm.bsky.social #openaccess ‬

New issue of Digital Classics Online Vol. 11 (2025) journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dc... @propylaeum.bsky.social #openaccess

Susan Harvey's long-awaited book on Syriac women's choirs is up on the @ucpress.bsky.social website! and it will be Open Access!! www.ucpress.edu/books/minist...

New entry "Sarvāstivāda Buddhism" by Zishan Khawaja | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu/sarvastivada...

Dieter Weber's Festschrift, celebrating his life-long contributions to the study of Middle Persian documents deserves more attention: Macuch, M. & A. Zeini (eds.). 2024. Deciphering the illegible: Festschrift in honour of Dieter Weber. @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social www.arashzeini.com/deciphering-...

Delighted to have the opportunity to share some of our work on @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social this week. Do join this welcoming web-based community for #medievalists working with digital media! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities

Bactrian Documents IV Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian Documents IV: Documents from South of the Hindukush, I (Part II Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia, Vol. VI Bactrian). London: Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. With a contribution by…

Sasanian Studies 3 Farridnejad, Shervin & Touraj Daryaee (eds.). 2024. Sasanian studies: Late antique Iranian world | Sasanidische Studien: Spätantike iranische Welt. Vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Sasanian Studies: Late Antique Iranian World is a refereed journal that publishes papers on…

Festschrift in Honor of Elton L. Daniel Ashtiany, Mohsen, Marisa McCrone & Mahnaz Moazami (eds.). 2025. Studies in Iranian history and culture: In honor of Elton L. Daniel (Iran Studies 27). Leiden: Brill. This Festschrift volume presents eleven essays on Iran in honor of Professor Elton L.…

Indo-Iranian Journal Indo-Iranian Journal volume 68, issue 2 (June 2025) has been published (h/t @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social‬). Two articles and two reviews relate to our work: Fattori, Marco. 2025. The foundations of Khotanese verse: Principles of theory and method. Indo-Iranian Journal. Brill…

The 2nd session of this workshop is this Sunday; also online. Dr Khanizadeh (SOAS) will explore the history of #Zoroastrianism from its roots in the second millennium BCE through to the present day. He will discuss religious, historical as well as social aspects of the religion’s development.

Myth and History in Ancient Persia Shaghaghi Zarghamee, Reza. 2025. Myth and History in Ancient Persia: The Achaemenids in the Iranian Tradition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. This book fills an important gap in Achaemenid studies by using traditional Iranian narratives, such as those…

The Sanskrit Version of Yasna Palladino, Martina. 2025. The Sanskrit Version of Yasna 1–8. A Critical Edition with Commentary and Glossaries (Corpus Avesticum / Handbuch der Orientalistik 32/5). Leiden: Brill. This book contributes to the Multimedia Yasna (MUYA) Project, led by Prof. Almut Hintze…

The House of the Satrap King, Rhyne. 2025. The House of the Satrap: The Making of the Ancient Persian Empire. Oakland: University of California Press. Starting in the sixth century BCE, the conquests of the Persian kings Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius transformed the lives of humans on a continental…

Die Aneignung und Umnutzung von Herrschaftsräumen am Beispiel der Squattersiedlung der südwestasiatischen Eisenzeit Cyrus, Georg . 2025. Die Aneignung und Umnutzung von Herrschaftsräumen am Beispiel der Squattersiedlung der südwestasiatischen Eisenzeit. Bicester: Archaeopress. Following the fall…

Shami, Kal-e Chendar Messina, Vito & Jafar Mehr Kian (eds.). 2025. Shami, Kal-e Chendar: Research of the Iranian-Italian Joint Expedition in Khuzestan. Bicester: Archaeopress. This report details the Iranian-Italian Joint Expedition's research (2012-2018) at Kal-e Chendar, Khuzestan. It reveals a…

Professionals of Writing in Late Antiquity First Bahari Workshop for Early Career Scholars Professionals of Writing in Late Antiquity A workshop organised by Olivia Ramble, Yuhan S-D Vevaina, and Alessia Zubani 13 June 2025 | 09:00 - 18:30Wolfson College, University of Oxford…

Das achaimenidisch-persische Imperium Degen, Julian (ed.). 2025. Das achaimenidisch-persische Imperium. Wiesbaden: Springer. Diese Einführung bietet einen systematischen Überblick über die Geschichte des achaimenidisch-persischen Imperiums, das weithin auch als „Perserreich“ bekannt ist. Dabei…

Kellens, Jean. 2025. Le Yasna Haptaŋhāiti (Publications d’Etudes Indo-Iraniennes 2). Strasbourg: Université de Strasbourg.

WZO’s Annual Seminar 2025 Three lectures as part of the World Zoroastrian Organisation's annual seminar. Alexandra Buhler: Relations between Zoroastrians in India & Iran during the late Qajar period Khodadad Rezakhani: The Heart of the Empire: Ctesiphon & DilĒrānšahr in the Sasanian World Vesta…

The realm of the Kuru Witzel, Michael. 2025. The realm of the Kuru: Origins and development of the first state in India. Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies 30(2). 1–165. Major article by M. Witzel with discussions of the relevant Iranian traditions. www.biblioiranica.info/the-realm-of...