the Cultural Heritage Organization directed by Serajuddin Kazerouni. Reports have been published in Guzarishha-yi bastanshinasi [Archaeological Reports] and Majalleh-ye Bastanshinasi va Tarikh [Journal of Archaeology and History], but little has appeared in international journals. The focus of research seems heavily weighted to the Islamic period, but this is hardly a break with earlier patterns, and excavation of both prehistoric and early historic sites has also occurred.

Important projects have been conducted on the citadel mound of the ancient Median capital of Ecbatana at Hamadan (Muhammad Sarraf); at Ziwiyeh (Nosratollah Motamedi); on the Apadana mound at Susa (Mir-Abedin Kabuli); at Shahdad (Kabuli); at the Sassanian site of Borazjan on the Persian Gulf (Ehsan Yaghmaei); in prehistoric mass graves in Luristan (Alireza Farzin); at Tepe Mil, a prehistoric, Sassanian, Seljuk, and Islamic site near Rayy (Zarintaj Sheibani); and in the important Sassanian complex at Kuh-i Khwaja in eastern Seistan. In 1995, the governments of Iran and Germany signed an accord on scientific and cultural cooperation, but assistance on the archaeological front was limited to educational exchanges. Although foreign scholars may visit and study in Iran, foreign archaeological projects remain prohibited.

Stuart Brown

See also

French Archaeology in Egypt and the Middle East

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Isaac, Glyn Llywelyn

(1937–1985)

Born in South Africa, Isaac went to Cambridge University, received his Ph.D. in 1961, and became