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  • Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq
    March 1, 2022 through September 5, 2022 Getty Villa Museum, Los Angeles Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq, through the museum’s masterworks on special loan from the British Museum, reveals how Assyrian kings in the ninth to seventh centuries BCE decorated their palaces with masterful relief sculptures that represent a high point of Mesopotamian art, both […]
  • Falcons: The Art of the Hunt
    March 1, 2022 through July 17, 2022 Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Swift, fierce, and loyal, falcons have been celebrated for millennia. In ancient Egypt, they were closely associated with Horus, the god of the heavens. By the early eighth century in Syria, falcons were being trained to become skillful hunters at the royal […]
  • Agreeable News from Persia: What 18th and early 19th century American newspaper readers knew about contemporary events in Iran
    With Daniel T. Potts Zoom Webinar British Institute of Persian Studies Seminar Series Wednesday 22 February 2023 06:00 PM (GMT) Registration: https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/agreeable-news-potts/ Contrary to what most people imagine, 18th and early 19th century newspapers carried a considerable amount of news reports about contemporary events in Iran. In this talk early American newspapers will be surveyed, showing that […]

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Past & Forthcoming Event

Bert Fragner Memorial Lecture

(1 December 2022)

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/iran/events/current-events/bert-fragner-memorial-lecture

A full biography of Bert Fragner (1941-2021) and his publications: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/iran/institute/staff/former-staff-members/bert-g-fragner

Obituary: https://brill.com/view/journals/jps/aop/article-10.1163-18747167-bja10026/article-10.1163-18747167-bja10026.xml

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