The Authors offer a synthesis of the layers at Tell Halaf attributed to period between 6th-4th centuries and, thus, Achaemenid culture. This attribution is based on their stratigraphical position as well presence specific elements material culture usually connected Achaemenids in residential spaces and burials. article discusses results most recent excavations site (campaigns 2006-2010). try fi...

there are rare references to professional training in mesopotamian sources mainly because this used to be done in the family, from father to son. nevertheless, there are some 35 apprenticeship contracts from the neo-babylonian period which open a unique window to the social, legal and economic aspects of professional training. the present article edits and translates 3 such apprenticeship contr...

The article, published in the first number of new series East & West journal edited by ISMEO, analyses all archaeological and historical data available to date for Dashtestan county from Achaemenid period, order demonstrate presence settlement Tamukkan (Taoce, Ta?(u)makka) this area propose it an urban model similar that recently hypothesized settlements Persepolis Pasargadae. author examines e...

the pharmaceutical knowledge and the medical science are very old in iran. during sassanid era, people who studied medicine or pharmacy at gondi-shapour university, had permission to treat sick people. after interruption in the progress of medicine and pharmacy, during the islamic civilization, these sciences were spread and became under control of the government. this research has presented th...