[1] Alireza Shapour Shahbazi was a lecturer in Achaemenid archaeology and Iranology at Harvard University.

[2] He was also a full professor of archaeology at Shiraz University and founded at Persepolis the Institute of Achaemenid Research in 1974.

[2] Shahbazi, who also served as visiting associate editor until 2003, would also author 76 articles of varying topics covering the Achaemenids, Arsacids, and Sasanian periods of Iran.

[2] Shahbazi wrote numerous classic books and articles on archaeology (Achaemenid, Sassanian and Islamic) in English, German, French, and the Persian language He died on 15 July 2006 after a long battle with cancer.

A History of Iranian Historiography to A.D. 1000, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsored study [publication ready].

Persepolis IV: A comprehensive analysis of Persepolitan inscriptions and monument studied since E. F. Schmidt (in preparation).

A Political History of the Sasanian Period, Persian Heritage Series, New York (forthcoming).

A Commentary on Tabari's History of the Sasanian Kings, The University Press of Iran, Tehran (due June 2003).

of P. J. Junge, Darieos I. König der Perser [Leipzig 1944], Institute of Achaemenid Research Publications, No.

"An Achaemenid Tomb: The Gur-i Dukhtar at Buzpar", Bastanshinasi va hunare Iran, IV (1971), 54–6, 92–99.

"The 'One Year' of Darius Re-examined", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies [University of London] 30 (1972) 609–614.

'The 'Traditional date of Zoroaster' explained", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies [University of London] 34 (1977), 25–35.

"Studies in Sasanian Iconography I. Narse's Investiture at Naqš-i Rustam", Archäologische Mitteilungen ans Iran 16 (1983), 255–68.

The relief of Ardašir II at Taq-i Bustan", Archäologische Mitteilungen ans Iran 18 (1985), 181–85.

"Huns"; "Isfahan"; "Panjikant"; "Pasargadae"; "Persepolis"; "Xerxes" in R. C. Bulliet ed., Encyclopaedia of Asian Studies (Middle East), New York (1988).

"Crowns: iv - of Persian rulers from the Islamic conquest to the Qajar period", Encyclopædia Iranica, Vol.

"Kinship of Greek and Persian," in A. Ashraf Sadeqi ed, Tafazzoli Memorial Volume, Tehran 2000, 229-31

111 "The Parthian Origins of the House of Rustam", Bulletin of the Asia Institute New Series, Vol.

"A specimen of marriage contract in Pahlavi and later Persian", Namvvra-yi Mamud Afšar IX, Tehran 1996, 5565-576

"Early Sasanians' Claim to Achaemenid Heritage", Journal of Ancient Persian History I/1, Spring and Summer 2001, 61–73.

"Did Goštasp marry his sister?," in T. Daryaee-M. Omidsala eds., The Spirit of Wisdom, Costa Mesa, Calif., 2004, pp.

"Mazdaean echoes in Shi'ite Iran" in Pheroza J. Godreji and Firoza Punthakey Mistree eds., A Zoroastrian Tapestry: Art, Religion and Cultur, Bombay and Singapore, 2002, pp.

"The myth of next-of-kin marriage in ancient Iran", Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History 15/1-2, 2002, pp.

"Hormozd , Sasanian Prince –brother of Shapur II", Encyclopædia Iranica, XI, pp.

(On the website of the Encyclopædia Iranica,), "Nowruz", "Zal", "Iraj", "Sasanian Dynasty", "Shapur I", "Yazdegerd I", "Rudabeh", "Hoshang", "Persepolis", "Shiraz", 163.

"The History of the Idea of Iran", in Vesta Curtis ed., Birth of the Persian Empire, London (2005) forthcoming.

G. Azarpay, Urartian Art and Artifacts: A Chronological Study University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1968, in R_hnama-ye Kitab 12/1-2 (1348/1969), 62–65.

J. Wiesehöfer, Die 'Dunklen Jahrhunderte' der Persis, Zetemata: Monographien zur Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, no.

R. Schmitt's The Bistun Inscription of Darius the Great: Old Persian Text, London 1991, in the German journal Orientalische Literaturzeitung 92 (1997), 732–40.

Farraxvmart i Vahraman, The Book of A Thousand Judgments (A Sasanian Law Book), introduction, transcription, and translation of the Pahlavi text, notes, glossary and indexes by Anahit Perikhanian, translated from Russian by Nina Garsoian, Persian Heritage Series No.