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    Ernst Emil Herzfeld (23 July 1879 – 20 January 1948) was a German archaeologist and Iranologist. Herzfeld was born in Celle, Province of Hanover. He studied...
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    1862–1863 The first scientific explorations in Persepolis were conducted by Ernst Herzfeld in 1931 The design and details of the columns of Persepolis Roof design...
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    (jstor.org) Ernst Herzfeld: Eine neue Darius-Inschrift aus Hamadan. In: Deutsche Literaturzeitung. Band 47, 1926, S. 2105–2108. Ernst Herzfeld: Drei Inschriften...
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    were first excavated between 1911 and 1914 by the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld. Samarra became the type site for the Samarra culture. Since 1946, the...
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    Pasargadae was first archaeologically explored by the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld in 1905, and in one excavation season in 1928, together with his assistant...
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    Brill. Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2017). "KĀRIN". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Herzfeld, Ernst (1928). "The Hoard of the Kâren Pahlavs". The Burlington Magazine for...
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    being destroyed and abandoned under the Buyids. Cursorily explored by Ernst Herzfeld and a team from the University of Chicago in the first half of the 20th...
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    the metropolitan at Arbela. Based on names of the Adiabenian rulers, Ernst Herzfeld suggested a Sakan or Scythian origin for the royal house of the kingdom;...
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    Selected Minor Works. E.J. Brill. p. 247. Herzfeld, Ernst (1947). Zoroaster and His World by Ernst Herzfeld. Princeton University Press. pp. 707–708....
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    Terrace at Persepolis and was excavated by the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld and his assistant Friedrich Krefter, and Erich Schmidt, between 1931...
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    Great Mosque Photo and information Photos, floor plans, and information Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 7: Records of Samarra Expeditions, Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil...
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    his book Iran in the Ancient East, the archaeologist and Iranologist Ernst Herzfeld, in referring to the Susa bas-reliefs, points to the ancient agal as...
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  • Edits attributed to King Ashoka. Kamboj Kambojas Khmer language 1968, Ernst Herzfeld, Gerold Walser, The Persian Empire: Studies in geography and ethnography...
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    regarded as a pre-Indo-European people. They have been identified by Ernst Herzfeld with the Kassites, who spoke a language not identified with any other...
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    especially André Godard, Maxime Siroux (both also architects), and Ernst Herzfeld, who had been brought to Iran to dig, curate, and train students. These...
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  • (continues to 1914). First excavations of ancient Samarra, Iraq, by Ernst Herzfeld (continues to 1914). First excavations of Tell Halaf, Syria, by Max...
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    "Gundaparnah" was apparently the Eastern Iranian form of the name. Ernst Herzfeld claims his name is perpetuated in the name of the Afghan city Kandahar...
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    present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. According to historian Ernst Herzfeld, his name is perpetuated in the name of the Afghan city Kandahar, which...
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    photography, squeezes) and personal objects of the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld (1879–1946), documenting his research at Samarra, Persepolis and Pasargadae...
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    Papak of Armenia) from his horse. In 1923, the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld made casts of the inscriptions on the tomb of Darius I. Since 1946,...
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    Rostam, due to divine protection, and died at the same time as Rostam. Ernst Herzfeld maintained that the dynasty of Gondophares represented the House of...
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    Askariya Shrine Wikimedia Commons has media related to Al-Askari Shrine. Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Records of Samarra Expeditions, Shiite Shrine Complex[permanent...
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    later excavated by Ernst Herzfeld, and was again investigated in part by Giorgio Gullini in a short expedition of 1960. Initially, Herzfeld tentatively dated...
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    culture was first recognized during excavations by German Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld at the site of Samarra. Other sites where Samarran material has been...
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    pomegranates, apricots, melons and other sweet fruits.[citation needed] Ernst Herzfeld claimed Kandahar perpetuated the name of the Indo-Parthian king Gondophares...
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  • politician Charles M. Herzfeld (1925–2017), American scientist Ernst Herzfeld (1879–1948), German archaeologist and Iranologist Estella Herzfeld (1837–1881), Dutch...
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    and is the oldest attested member of the Eastern Iranian languages. Ernst Herzfeld suggested that Bactria belonged to the Medes before its annexation to...
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  • 1983 Jonathan Haslam historian 2015 current George F. Kennan Professor Ernst Herzfeld archeologist and Iranologist 1936 1944 Albert O. Hirschman political...
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  • mention may be made of his controversy with Ernst Herzfeld over the origins of the Mshatta facade, in which Herzfeld's position was eventually proven to be correct;...
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    at Persepolis for the Oriental Institute were initially directed by Ernst Herzfeld from 1931 to 1934 and carried on from 1934 until 1939 by Erich Schmidt...
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