Article: Birth of the Persian Empire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

BIRTH OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE

Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Sarah Stewart Published by IB TAURIS ISBN 1 84511 062 5 price 39.00 [pounds sterling] hardback

Of the great civilisations, Persia is probably the least known and most enigmatic. This book explores the formation of the first Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Persians. It brings together a nmlti-disciplinary view of ancient Iran in the first millennium BC and concentrates on the art, archaeology, history and religion of a geographical area far beyond the present borders of ...

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