Roman Ghirshman
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Roman Ghirshman was a Ukrainian
Ukraine
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-born French
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 archeologist who specialized in ancient Iran.

A native of Kharkiv
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, Ghirshman moved to Paris
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 in 1917 to study Archeology and Ancient Language
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s. He was mainly interested in the archeological ruins of Iran
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, specifically Teppe Gian, Teppe Sialk, Bagram
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 in Afghanistan
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, Bishapur
Bishapur
thumb|Irano-Roman floor mosaic detail from the palace of [[Shapur I]] at BishapurBishapur is an ancient city situated south of modern Faliyan, Iran on the ancient road between Persis and Elam. The road linked the Sassanid capitals Istakhr and Ctesiphon...

 in Fars, and Susa
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Susa was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian and Parthian empires of Iran. It is located in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris River, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers....

.

In the 1930s, Girshman was the first to excavate Teppe Sialk
Teppe Sialk
Tepe Sialk is a large ancient archeological site in a suburb of the city of Kashan, Isfahan Province, in central Iran, close to Fin Garden. The culture that inhabited this area has been linked to the Zayandeh Rud Civilization.-History:The Sialk mound was built around the 8th century BC...

. His studies on Chogha Zanbil have been printed in 4 volumes, and he also led excavation teams at Kharg Island
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Kharg Island is a continental island in the Persian Gulf belonging to Iran. The island is located off the coast of Iran and northwest of the Strait of Hormuz. Administered by the adjacent coastal Bushehr Province, Kharg Island provides a sea port for the export of oil and extends Iranian...

, Iwan-i Karkheh, and the Parthia
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n platforms in Masjed Soleiman, near Izeh
Izeh
Izeh is a city in and the capital of Izeh County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 103,695, in 20,127 families....

, Khuzestan.

With 300 papers and 20 books published, Ghirshman was one of the most prolific and respected experts on ancient Iran. Some of his works on Susa
Susa
Susa was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian and Parthian empires of Iran. It is located in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris River, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers....

 have not even been published yet, but have served other archeologists such as Henri Gashe in subsequent follow-up studies in the 1960s and 70s in Iran.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Roman Ghirshman, OCLC
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/WorldCat
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 encompasses roughly 300+ works in 600+ publications in 12 languages and 6,000+ library holdings.
  • 1938, Fouilles de Sialk, prés de Kashan, 1933, 1934, 1937. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris (in two volumes).
  • 1954, Iran: from the earliest times to the Islamic conquest. Penguin books. (A French version was published in 1951 by Payot, Paris)
  • 1970, Le Pazuzu et les fibules du Luristan. Impr. Catholique, Beirut.
  • 1971, Persia, the immortal kingdom. (Coauthors: Minorsky, V.F., and Sanghvi, R., Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society.
  • 1976, L'Iran des origines à l'islam. - Nouv. éd. rev. et mise à jour. Nouv. éd. rev. et mise à jour., Paris.
  • 1977, L'Iran et la migration des Indo-Aryens et des Iraniens. Leiden.
  • 1979, Tombe princière de Ziwiyé et le début de l'art animalier scythe. Soc. Iranienne pour la Conservation du Patrimoine, Paris.
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