Excavating an empire : Achaemenid Persia in longue durée /
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Costa Mesa, California :
Mazda Publishers,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I. History
- The Achaemenid Empire in the Context of World History (550-330 BCE) / T. Daryaee and Kh. Rezakhani
- Designation of the Empire and Its Political Concepts of Darius I according to Old Persian Records / C. Herrenschmidt
- "An Admirer of Persian Ways" : Alexander the Great's Reforms in Parthia-Hyrcania and the Iranian Heritage / M.J. Olbrycht
- Darius the First, the Ninth King / M. Waters
- PART II. Archaeology and Material Culture
- The Pre-Imperial Persians at the Land of Anshan : Some Preliminary Observations / K. Abdi & M.-T. Atayi
- The Cultural Heritage of the Aristocracy of Persis during the Hellenistic Period / P. Callieri
- The Achaemenid Coinage : Regal and Satrapal Coins / A. Gariboldi
- Sailing to Pasargadae / D.T. Potts
- The Palace Architecture of the Achaemenids under Scrutiny : an Approach to the Problem of its Origin / A. Tourovetz
- Landscape, Sources and Architecture at the Archaeological Remains of Achaemenid Sīstān (East Iran) : Dahān-i Gholāmān / B. Genito
- PART III. Religion and Culture
- Ancestors, Corpses, Kings, and the Land : Symbolic Constructs in Ancient India and Iran / B. Lincoln
- The Achaemenian Power Between Tolerance and Authoritarianism : Possible or Impossible Comparison with Modern Phenomena / A. Panaino
- "Excellence in Soul and Nobly Bred to Grandeur" : Contemporary External Texts Relating to Achaemenid Belief and Practice / J. Rose
- PART IV. Remembering the Achaemenids
- Ancient Persia in Cinema / W. Soward.