This book offers a new history of the ancient city of Rayy. Based on the results of the latest excavations and surveys, and on the study of historical and geographical texts, the complete occupation s
In The Oasis of Bukhara: Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution, co-published by Brill and the Louvre Museum, Rocco Rante, archaeologist at the Louvre Museum, presents the results of a regi
Seven English and five French essays consider the region of Greater Khorasan, with its shifting and ambiguous geographic definitions during the Sassanian and early Islamic periods at the intersection