Ancient India & Iran Trust
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The Ancient India & Iran Trust is an independent charity in Cambridge, UK, promoting the study of the archaeology, art, religions and languages of early India, Iran & Central Asia
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Looking forward to our lecture this Friday by Arash Zeini, University of Oxford:
Navigating Zoroastrian Communal Identity in the Early Islamic Era
We hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/40a06087be68...
Navigating Zoroastrian Communal Identity in the Early Islamic Era
We hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/40a06087be68...
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Looking forward to our lecture this Friday by Arash Zeini, University of Oxford:
Navigating Zoroastrian Communal Identity in the Early Islamic Era
We hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/40a06087be68...
Navigating Zoroastrian Communal Identity in the Early Islamic Era
We hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/40a06087be68...
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1: On Friday, 28 November, I will be speaking about the 'Epistles of Manuščihr' (881 CE) and their early Islamic context at @indiairantrust.bsky.social:
"Navigating Zoroastrian Communal Identity in the Early Islamic Era"
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Abstract: The Abbāsid Caliphate came to power
"Navigating Zoroastrian Communal Identity in the Early Islamic Era"
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Abstract: The Abbāsid Caliphate came to power
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
1: On Friday, 28 November, I will be speaking about the 'Epistles of Manuščihr' (881 CE) and their early Islamic context at @indiairantrust.bsky.social:
"Navigating Zoroastrian Communal Identity in the Early Islamic Era"
mailchi.mp/869594076c33...
Abstract: The Abbāsid Caliphate came to power
"Navigating Zoroastrian Communal Identity in the Early Islamic Era"
mailchi.mp/869594076c33...
Abstract: The Abbāsid Caliphate came to power
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Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran
Cereti, Carlo Giovanni, Pierfrancesco Callieri & Vito Messina (eds.). 2025. Eranshahr. Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran (Collana Convegni 75). Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. This fourth volume of the Atlas of the…
Cereti, Carlo Giovanni, Pierfrancesco Callieri & Vito Messina (eds.). 2025. Eranshahr. Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran (Collana Convegni 75). Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. This fourth volume of the Atlas of the…
Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran
Cereti, Carlo Giovanni, Pierfrancesco Callieri & Vito Messina (eds.). 2025. Eranshahr. Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran (Collana Convegni 75). Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. This fourth volume of the Atlas of the Ancient Near East (OCAVOA) collects 15 contributions by members of the three Units composing the PRIN 2017 ‘Eranshahr: Man Landscape and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran
Cereti, Carlo Giovanni, Pierfrancesco Callieri & Vito Messina (eds.). 2025. Eranshahr. Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran (Collana Convegni 75). Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. This fourth volume of the Atlas of the…
Cereti, Carlo Giovanni, Pierfrancesco Callieri & Vito Messina (eds.). 2025. Eranshahr. Man, Landscape, and Society in Arsacid and Sasanian Iran (Collana Convegni 75). Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. This fourth volume of the Atlas of the…
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Latest blogpost on an interesting item in our Archives - a dinner menu for the 1889 International Congress of Orientalists. Check out how iconic dishes around the globe are celebrated in different ancient and modern Asian languages! royalasiaticsociety.org/language-and...
Language and Culinary Culture – Dinner Menu for International Congress of Orientalists
Some time ago, a researcher visited us to consult the papers of the International Congress of Orientalists held in our collections. Although these papers are classified as part of our institutional ar...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Latest blogpost on an interesting item in our Archives - a dinner menu for the 1889 International Congress of Orientalists. Check out how iconic dishes around the globe are celebrated in different ancient and modern Asian languages! royalasiaticsociety.org/language-and...
17 October - Indian classical music at West Road Concert Hall to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Lucy Cavendish College
www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/events/arpan
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Arpan
The Cambridge Indian Classical Music Community presents Arpan, a concert dedicated to Lucy Cavendish College's mission.
www.lucy.cam.ac.uk
August 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
17 October - Indian classical music at West Road Concert Hall to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Lucy Cavendish College
www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/events/arpan
www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/events/arpan
@timesofindianews.bsky.social columnist Bachi Karkaria on her recent visit to the Trust: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/errati...
Strawberries and scholarship
India and Iran converge again in Cambridge The temptation was strawberries, but I savoured learning’s creamy layer. In 1998, I’d interviewed Richard Blurton — yes with an ‘l’ – when, as director of B...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
@timesofindianews.bsky.social columnist Bachi Karkaria on her recent visit to the Trust: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/errati...
Congratulations to our trustee Prof Cameron Petrie on his appointment as Head of the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University.
The Department of Archaeology is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof Cameron Petrie as the next Head of Department.
Prof Petrie succeeds the outgoing Head of Department, Dr Tamsin O’Connell, as from 1 July 2025.
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/new-hea...
Prof Petrie succeeds the outgoing Head of Department, Dr Tamsin O’Connell, as from 1 July 2025.
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/new-hea...
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Congratulations to our trustee Prof Cameron Petrie on his appointment as Head of the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University.
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Our visiting scholar Professor MB Rajani is presenting "Uncovering Mughal Agra: Riverfront Gardens, City Walls, and Urban Transformations through Remote Sensing and GIS" next week.
Please come along to the McDonald Institute if you are in Cambridge or via Zoom 👇
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Please come along to the McDonald Institute if you are in Cambridge or via Zoom 👇
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
June 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Our visiting scholar Professor MB Rajani is presenting "Uncovering Mughal Agra: Riverfront Gardens, City Walls, and Urban Transformations through Remote Sensing and GIS" next week.
Please come along to the McDonald Institute if you are in Cambridge or via Zoom 👇
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please come along to the McDonald Institute if you are in Cambridge or via Zoom 👇
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Our lecture this Friday is now a hybrid event. Join us in person or online: mailchi.mp/e3e11f261cb2...
May 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Our lecture this Friday is now a hybrid event. Join us in person or online: mailchi.mp/e3e11f261cb2...
April 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Sir Harold Bailey on film at the Trust - a lovely little section from a 1985 documentary has just come to our attention.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Sir Harold Bailey on film at the Trust - a lovely little section from a 1985 documentary has just come to our attention.
www.indiran.org/sir-harold-b...
www.indiran.org/sir-harold-b...
Cambridge Nahoft will be performing at Trinity College Chapel on Monday 31 March.
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Smoke of Incense
Persian Classical Music Concert
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March 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Cambridge Nahoft will be performing at Trinity College Chapel on Monday 31 March.
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Duplicate books for sale - updated list for March 2025.
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March 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Duplicate books for sale - updated list for March 2025.
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Spaces are available for our Cambridge festival talk on Friday 21 March: 'New Epigraphic Discoveries from Ancient Bactria'by our Chair, Professor Nicholas Sims-Willaims
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/new-e...
To book your place, email info@indiran.org
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/new-e...
To book your place, email info@indiran.org
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Spaces are available for our Cambridge festival talk on Friday 21 March: 'New Epigraphic Discoveries from Ancient Bactria'by our Chair, Professor Nicholas Sims-Willaims
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/new-e...
To book your place, email info@indiran.org
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/new-e...
To book your place, email info@indiran.org
@cambridgefestival.bsky.social
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Education for all? Lessons from the South Bank to Georgia State, Rt Hon Simon Hughes.
The Professor John Hinnells Memorial Lecture
Tue 4 Mar 5.30pm-6:30pm The Auditorium, Robinson
What can help Cambridge, Russell Group and all universities in England do better?
shorturl.at/qHIzF
The Professor John Hinnells Memorial Lecture
Tue 4 Mar 5.30pm-6:30pm The Auditorium, Robinson
What can help Cambridge, Russell Group and all universities in England do better?
shorturl.at/qHIzF
February 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Education for all? Lessons from the South Bank to Georgia State, Rt Hon Simon Hughes.
The Professor John Hinnells Memorial Lecture
Tue 4 Mar 5.30pm-6:30pm The Auditorium, Robinson
What can help Cambridge, Russell Group and all universities in England do better?
shorturl.at/qHIzF
The Professor John Hinnells Memorial Lecture
Tue 4 Mar 5.30pm-6:30pm The Auditorium, Robinson
What can help Cambridge, Russell Group and all universities in England do better?
shorturl.at/qHIzF
Looking forward to our lecture this Friday by Professor Douglas Hedley:
'The Romantic Appropriation of India'.
All welcome.
mailchi.mp/733d4f6d743d...
'The Romantic Appropriation of India'.
All welcome.
mailchi.mp/733d4f6d743d...
February 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Looking forward to our lecture this Friday by Professor Douglas Hedley:
'The Romantic Appropriation of India'.
All welcome.
mailchi.mp/733d4f6d743d...
'The Romantic Appropriation of India'.
All welcome.
mailchi.mp/733d4f6d743d...
The latest edition of our newsletter, Indiran, is now available online www.indiran.org/about/trust-...
January 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The latest edition of our newsletter, Indiran, is now available online www.indiran.org/about/trust-...
We have two in-person Friday lectures this term, on 21 February and 7 March, as well as a talk for Friends of the Trust this Friday.
We hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/8019b6ae63ce...
We hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/8019b6ae63ce...
January 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
We have two in-person Friday lectures this term, on 21 February and 7 March, as well as a talk for Friends of the Trust this Friday.
We hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/8019b6ae63ce...
We hope you can join us.
mailchi.mp/8019b6ae63ce...
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Happy New Year for 2025. Our first blogpost of the year starts with the sad news of long-term Member, Michael Loewe but also highlights news from the Royal Asiatic Society of Georgia: royalasiaticsociety.org/happy-new-ye...
January 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Happy New Year for 2025. Our first blogpost of the year starts with the sad news of long-term Member, Michael Loewe but also highlights news from the Royal Asiatic Society of Georgia: royalasiaticsociety.org/happy-new-ye...