Sims-Williams, Nicholas. 2025. Bactrian Documents IV: Documents from South of the Hindukush, I (Part II Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia, Vol. VI Bactrian). London: Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. With a contribution by Frantz Grenet. Following on from the three volumes of Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan (BD1-3), the present volume primarily contains the edition of a collection of fourth-century letters written on birchbark in a place which cannot be located precisely but which was evidently somewhere to the south of the Hindukush, in what is now Southern Afghanistan or Pakistan.

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Volume 13, issue 1 of the journal Journal of Ancient History was published in 2025.

The purpose of the Ērān Tūrān Hrōm talk series (ETHS) is to advance the study of late antique/first millennium West and Central Asia within a broader Global Historical and Afro-Eurasian framework. …

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Nabel, Jake. 2022. “The Parthian Empire.” In Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole, 157–63. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.

In championing the work of local scholars, especially female, this volume begins to fill a politically imposed lacuna in the English language reporting of hi...