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In the various issues of volume 88 of Near Eastern Archaeology, several articles address topics in Iranian archaeology. The following list compiles all Iran-related contributions: Morteza Khanipour and Masashi Abe: From Seasonal Hunting Base to Permanent Settlement. Insights from the High-altitude Hormangan Site Reza Naseri and Morteza Khanipour: Burial Practices of the Bronze Age. An Archaeological Study of the Deh Dumen Cemetery in Southern Zagros, Iran…

Indo-Iranian Journal volume 68, issue 3 (November 2025) has been published (as always h/t @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social‬). Sims-Williams has an open access article on Bactrian: Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian in two scripts: Greek and Kushan. Indo-Iranian Journal. Brill 68(3). 185–214.

Bernard, Chams Benoît. 2025. Like dust on the Silk Road: On the earliest Iranian and BMAC loanwords in Tocharian (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 27). Leiden: Brill. This volume is open access. Fol…

Purwins, Nils. 2025. Der Aufbau des Sasanidenreiches: Administration und Eliten im Vergleich zum Römischen Reich (Ancient Iran Series 18). Leiden: Brill. The work provides in two volumes the first comprehensive overall concept of the administrative and social structure of the Sasanian Empire (5th-7th century). In more than 1.000 contemporary leather documents, seals, ostraca, inscriptions and texts, which are brought together here for the first time, the subjects of the king of kings report in words and pictures on their lives in the various provinces of the empire, on the organisation of the military, civil and religious administration and on the circles of power at the court of their ruler.

Hackl, Johannes. 2025. The Unfinished Story of the Babylonian Version of the Bīsotūn (Behistun) Inscription (DB Bab.). Iraq. Published online 2025:1-20. doi:10.1017/irq.2025.10033 This article revisits the editorial history of the Babylonian (Akkadian) version of the Bīsotūn (Behistun) Inscription (DB) to establish the extent of the surviving text in light of a re-examination of the inscription at Mount Bīsotūn (Behistun).

The Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents The Academic Research Segment. The Academic Research Edition of the Society of Scholars of Zoroastrianism presents 'a deep dive into the newest discoveries in the world of Zoroastrianism'. This is an online event taking place on 15 November 2025 from 3:30 to 6:30pm GMT. Please visit this link for further details. The participants are:

Toft, Lasse Løvlund, Mattias Sommer Bostrup & René Falkenberg (eds.). 2025. On the Matter. Studies on Manichaeism and Church History Presented to Nils Arne Pedersen at Sixty-Five (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum – Analecta Manichaica 4). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. The anthology consists of twenty-nine studies on Manichaean texts in Coptic, Syriac, Chinese, and Iranian languages, as well as on broader Church History including texts from the Nag Hammadi Codices, Coptic and Syriac heresiology and Early Modern religious polemics.

The Pahlavi Papyri in their Historical Context is the second round of the Pahlavi Papyri Workshop to be held in Innsbruck: Tuesday, 25 November – Wednesday, 26 November 2025. The workshop is organized by Bernhard Palme, Robert Rollinger and Touraj Daryaee. Address: Seminar rooms 04K100/04M100 (4th floor) and 14 (1st floor), Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck To see the program, click here.

Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Chotano-Sogdica. Linguistic Studies on Sogdian and Khotanese (Grammatica Iranica, 4). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Über ein halbes Jahrhundert lang, seit 1972, hat Nicholas Sims-Williams viele wichtige Artikel über die älteren iranischen Sprachen veröffentlicht, insbesondere über das östliche Mitteliranisch (Sogdisch, Baktrisch und Khotanisch). Nahezu alle seine Artikel über Sogdisch und Khotanisch sind im vorliegenden Band zusammengefasst, zusammen mit drei völlig neuen Artikeln mit den Titeln „Is there a ‘predicative instrumental’ in Sogdian?“, „Yaghnobi and the Sogdian ‘Rhythmic Law’“ und „The locative singular in Old Khotanese“.

Nayebossadrian, Zhaleh. 2025. The Zoroastrian funeral ritual for living souls. Culture and Religion. 1-14. This study presents a comprehensive investigation into a Zoroastrian funerary rite, ‘Zīnda-ruwān-yaštan’, performed during their lifetime for the well-being of their living soul. The research draws on Zoroastrian scriptures and ethnographic sources to trace the origins and eventual decline of the ‘Zīnda-ruwāni’ ritual through a combination of historical, textual, and epigraphic analysis.

Salaris, Davide. 2025. ‘Royal’ road, ‘royal’ needs: a GIS-based approach to Achaemenid court logistics between royal capitals of Susa and Persepolis. Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-8. This article redefines the concept of the Achaemenid ‘Royal’ Road using GIS-based route modelling to reconstruct possible roads between Susa and Persepolis. By integrating logistical and environmental parameters, it shows how royal mobility required a specialised infrastructure—distinct from ancillary roads—tailored to the operational scale of the Achaemenid court.

Volume 26 of the journal Parthica (2024) contains several contributions of relevance to Iranian Studies. R. PALERMO - E. FRANCO - M. LA PORTA - C. RASMUSSEN: Exploring the Hellenistic period in North Mesopotamia landscape studies and excavations at Gird-I Matrab (Iraqi Kurdistan), p. 9 C. LIPPOLIS - V. MESSINA - G. PATRUCCO - A. SPANO: Rapid digital documentation of endangered archaeological contexts.

Nolan, Daniel. 2025. Zoroastrianism and contemporary philosophy (Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Zoroastrianism is a religion with a long history, but it has been comparatively neglected by contemporary philosophers. This Element aims to bring aspects of its long intellectual history into conversation with contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. Section 1 provides an introduction to Zoroastrianism and its history, some of the important texts, and some contemporary philosophy engaged with Zoroastrian themes.

Leuchter, Mark A.. 2025. An Empire Far and Wide: The Achaemenid Dynastic Myth and Jewish Scribes in the Late Persian Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book offers a new approach to evidence to examine Persian imperial ideology and surveys literary products of ancient Jewish scribes to analyze the influence of Persian imperialism on the development of Yehudite scribal ideology and presents an argument for the existence of Judaism in the Persian period.

We are grateful to the staff at Yale Classics Library (@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social), who have been wonderful collaborators, sharing publication information with us: Volume 29, issue 3, of Iran and the Caucasus has now been published. The following articles relate to the disciplinary focus of BiblioIranica: Did Arrian Ever Fight the Alans? Author: Fatima FoltzPages: 233–246 Who Hides under the Name “Šahrbarāz, Malik al-Bāb” by aṭ-Ṭabarī under 22 A.H.

The latest issue (175.2) of the legendary Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG) has been published and is accessible here. Research articles Die ZDMG und ihre „Kinder“. Über die Rolle wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften in der Geschichte der OrientalistikThomas L. GertzenPage 273 - 292 Beyond Rage and Fear. Negative Emotions in Middle Babylonian LettersJacob Jan de Ridder…

Abedi, Milad & Johannes Thomann. 2024. The Emergence of Arabic Scientific Terminology at the Eastern Contact Zone: Calque and Loanword in Early ʿAbbāsid Time (750–800 CE). Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 78 (4): 705-717. Superstratum languages often become substratum languages after military defeats. This was the case with Middle Persian in the Islamic Empire. There were different phases of interference between Middle Persian and Arabic.