Roman Ghirshman

Roman Ghirshman (, Roman Mikhailovich Girshman; October 3, 1895 – 5 September 1979) was a Ukrainian-born French archeologist who specialized in ancient Persia. Ghirshman spent nearly thirty years excavating ancient Persian archeological sites throughout Iran and Afghanistan. Ghirshman moved to Paris in 1917 to study Archeology and Ancient Languages. He was mainly interested in the archeological ruins of Iran, specifically Tepe Giyan, Teppe Sialk, Bagram in Afghanistan, Bishapur in Fars, and Susa.

He died in Budapest of a stroke on September 5, 1979. The French scholar Jacques Heurgon wrote a eulogy for his death.

Honors Charles Lang Freer Medal Legion of Honour

Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Roman Ghirshman, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 300+ works in 600+ publications in 12 languages and 6,000+ library holdings.

1935, Fouilles du Tepe Giyan, Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner 12.Rue Vavin(VI) 1938, Fouilles de Sialk, prés de Kashan, 1933, 1934, 1937. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris (in two volumes). 1954, Iran: from the earliest times to the Islamic conquest. Penguin books.(A French version was published in 1951 by Payot, Paris). 1962, Persian art : Parthian and Sassanian dynasties, 249 B.C.- A.D. 651. 1963, Perse. Proto-iraniens, Mèdes, Achéménides. Gallimard, Paris. 1970, Le Pazuzu et les fibules du Luristan. Impr. Catholique, Beirut. 1971, Persia, the immortal kingdom. (Coauthors: Minorsky, V.F., and Sanghvi, R., Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society. 1976, L'Iran des origines à l'Islam. Nouv. éd. rev. et mise à jour. Paris. 1977, L'Iran et la migration des Indo-Aryens et des Iraniens. Leiden. 1979, Tombe princière de Ziwiyé et le début de l'art animalier scythe. Soc. Iranienne pour la Conservation du Patrimoine, Paris.