Historian of ancient Rome and pre-Islamic Iran at Penn State
Joined September 2012
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15 Apr 2025
I wrote a book about a group of Parthian royalty who lived at the court of the Roman emperor in the first century CE. Today, finally, it is an object in the world.
You can read the open access PDF here and it would mean the world to me if you did!
ucpress.edu/books/the-arsaci…
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Takuji Abe. 2018. "Proskynēsis: From a Persian Court Protocol to a Greek Religious Practice." ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr… A fragmentary stone relief from Dascylium, which is dated to the fifth century, also shows two male figures wearing headgear, ... x.com/JakeNabel/status/18014…
14 Jun 2024
From a recent visit to the Istanbul Archaeological Museum: magi (the signage implied) presiding over a sacrifice. Fifth century BCE relief from Dascylium
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New Cambridge Element, Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia, by Rachel Mairs, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
cup.org/42hTbzq
#cambridgeelements #archaeology
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May 2
A three-year career development post in Sasanian Studies at Oxford (where we already have a unique associate professorship in the field). ames.ox.ac.uk/vacancies#vaca…
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Apr 25
اُردیبهشت: اشعار گنجور با ظاهر مینیمال و جستوجوی بهتر
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Apr 17
Volume 20, the newest volume of our Ancient Iran Series #AIS, co-ed. with @tourajdaryaee by @Brill_ME_Africa is now published:
“Women of the Empire: Life and labor in the Achaemenid Persepolis Archives” by @PuerAchaemenius
Congratulations Yazdan for this fantastic book!
Apr 17
Women of the Empire
Safaee, Yazdan. 2026. Women of the empire: Life and labor in the Achaemenid Persepolis Archives (Ancient Iran Series 20). Leiden: Brill.
biblioiranica.info/women-of-…
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Apr 14
Türkiye’nin en büyüleyici miraslarından biri olan Nemrut Dağı zirvesindeki I. Antiochos heykelini kanaviçe ile yorumladım.⛰️
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Mar 22
Welp, seems like as bad a time as any to mention that I'm giving a talk on the concept of freedom in ancient Iran at Minnesota on Wed, Apr 1, from 3:30—5pm (Central). It will be Zoomed as well: cla.umn.edu/premodern/news-e…
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Mar 22
I hope Iranian colleagues will see the talk not as a chauvinistic lecture on the topic, but as an attempt to demonstrate the high valuation of freedom in Iran's ancient past —
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Mar 22
something the current literature on ancient freedom, with its overriding focus on Greece and Rome, either explicitly denies or tells us not to expect.
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Mar 17
Huge thanks to Michael Motia for the chance to talk about my book on the New Books in Late Antiquity podcast! It was a really fun conversation
newbooksnetwork.com/the-arsa…
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Feb 28
Djalal Khaleghi Motlagh (1937-2026)
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Feb 23
A recent article on citizenship regimes in the Greek poleis of the Parthian empire academia.edu/164821775/The_V…
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20 Nov 2025
What an impressive young historian!
16 Nov 2025
A young Iranian teenager stands before the ruins of Persepolis and delivers a concise, well-structured history lesson in flawless English. His tone is calm and assured, his facts precise—touching on the site’s founding by Darius the Great, its role in Achaemenid ceremonial life, and the architectural significance of its stone reliefs.
What stands out most is not just his command of the material, but the clarity and confidence with which he communicates it, offering viewers a thoughtful and articulate glimpse into one of Iran’s most iconic ancient sites.
KAYHANLIFE.COM
#kayhanlife #persepolis
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21 Oct 2025
A beautifully preserved Palmyrene Aramaic inscription on a wooden board which was left standing upright in a cave on the island of Socotra.
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3 Oct 2025
RT @tourajdaryaee: درس گفتارهای تاریخ ایران باستان در دوازده جلسه
اگر فقط دوست دارید که درباره تاریخ ایران گوش دهید
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2 Oct 2025
Free ebook: "Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran"
see: biblioiranica.info/man-lands…
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18 Sep 2025
New aDNA evidence of yersinia pestis (plague, Black Death) in skeletal samples from a late antique mass grave in Jerash, Jordan, much closer to the presumed epicenter of the Justinianic plague than previous samples usf.edu/health/news/2025/usf…
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18 Sep 2025
Previous evidence of yersinia pestis in late antique samples only came from relatively remote places in central Europe, very far from Constantinople. This, from Kyle Harper in 2017 (The Fate of Rome, p. 230), has aged well
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