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Thursday,
28 January 1999
TEHRAN An official of the Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran told the Tehran
Times yesterday that over one hundred inscriptions, dating back to the Ilamites
who resided in Iran, have been deciphered. Dariyoosh Akbarzadeh the Director of
the Language Research Center of the Cultural Heritage Organization, who is also
supervising the Inscriptions Research Project, said that during the deposed
Pahlavi Dynasty the work of decoding the inscriptions was carried out by
foreigners who did not allow Iranians to interfere in such projects.
He added that however, the new manager of the organization has stressed that the
work of studying the inscriptions preserved in the treasury of the National and
Shush museums, is to be launched by an Iranian expert named Arfaei who has began
activity in this respect for the past six months. Arfaei is a graduate of
Pennsylvania and Chicago universities. Akbarzadeh said that out of the 100
inscriptions decoded 45 have been deciphered by Arfaei. He added that since
Arfaei is the only one specialized in deciphering non-Iranian inscriptions, the
work of decoding these inscriptions, numbering nearly 100,000, will last for 20
years.
Worth mentioning is that in 1850, 1903 and 1948 Prof. Jackson, H.C. Rawlinson
and George Cameroon had carried out studies on Bisotoon inscriptions located in
Kermanshah Province, west of Iran.
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