TY - BOOK AU - Curtis,Vesta Sarkhosh AU - Stewart,Sarah ED - London Middle East Institute. ED - British Museum. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Birth of the Persian Empire T2 - The idea of Iran AV - DS275 .B57 2005eb PY - 2005/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - I.B. Tauris in association with The London Middle East Institute at SOAS and The British Museum, In the U.S. of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Iran KW - History KW - To 640 KW - Civilization KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - "A series of six lectures delivered at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the spring and summer terms 2004, organised by the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum."--P. [1]; Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-147); Cyrus the Great and the kingdom of Anshan / [D.T. Potts] -- An archaeologist's approach to Avestan geography / [Frantz Grenet] -- The Achaemenids and the Avesta / [P.O. Sk�rv�] -- The contribution of the Magi / [Albert de Jong] -- The history of the idea of Iran / [A. Shapur Shahbazi] -- Iron Age Iran and the transition to the Achaemenid period / [John Curtis]; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10254888 ER -