The MULINEM (The Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia) project is aiming to investigate a Late Sasanian and Islamic urban network in the land of Erbil, historic province of Hidyab (Adiabene) that is located in the northern Iraq. The research of the hierarchical urban network in a defined area belongs to approaches rarely used in the study of the Islamic urbanism. The project foc...

This study presents a new precise radiocarbon chronology for the World Heritage site of Sarvestan (SW Iran). The monument is key construction in history architecture because it typical Sasanian built during late or early Islamic period. Previous attempts to date have suggested ages ranging from middle (fifth century CE) Abbasid (ninth era. These age estimations are based on analysis architectur...

Abstract Chemical compositional data sets of archaeological artefacts are often analysed using standard statistical procedures. Adopting a different approach, we examine the major element oxides found in Parthian and Sasanian glazed pottery by identifying statistically important ratios conjunction with expert knowledge scientist during, rather than after, identification process. This results me...