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.CAIS NEWS© ARCHAEOLOGICAL & CULTURAL NEWS OF THE IRANIAN WORLD |
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Veteran Iranian Archaeologist Passes Away
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11 June 2007 |
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LONDON, (CAIS) -- Renowned scholar and professor of archaeology and sociology, Parviz Varjavand passed away in Tehran on Saturday.
Born
in 1934 in
He
published the first Iranian students’ newspaper when he was 16.
Varjavand
was active in cultural heritage affairs and he made efforts to register
Persepolis, the Choghazanbil Ziggurat and Naqsh-e Jahan complex on the UNESCO
World Heritage List.
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"History is the Light on the Path to Future" |
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Encyclopaedia Iranica
The British Institute of Persian Studies "Persepolis Reconstructed"
The British Museum
The Royal Asiatic Society
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