A team of researchers, with a member each from the University of Tehran, Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Bologna working with another independent researcher, has claimed to have ...

Mojtaba Doroudi underlined that Arfa’i was a pioneer and the first Iranian scholar to achieve mastery in Elamite and Old Babylonian, languages used in many Achaemenid tablets and inscriptions. “Arfa’i ...

Introduction / Javier Álvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks. Part I. Imagining Elam: the history of research and its sources. Aelam regio : Elam in Western scholarship from the ...

Born in 1939 in Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, Arfa’i was regarded as one of the country’s foremost experts on Elamite and Akkadian languages and one of the last surviving specialists worldwide ...

The 4,000-year-old Linear Elamite script from what is now Iran has long eluded archaeologists hoping to unlock the secrets of a near-forgotten age. French archaeologist François Desset's work on ...

The Elamites were one of the great civilizations of the ancient Near East, flourishing in what is now southwestern Iran for ...

The world’s oldest undeciphered writing might just crack soon. Researchers working on deciphering lettering from proto-Elamite, a system used between 3200 B.C. and 2900 B.C. are finally starting to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Archaemenian clay tablet written in the Elamite scripts is shown at Iran's National Museum in Tehran, May 1, 2004. His quest: ...

While a modern-day war has focused the world's attention on Iran, for French archaeologist François Desset it was a millennia-old mystery that drew him to the country. His quest: to decipher the 4,000 ...