Roman Ghirshman

Roman Ghirshman
Ghirshman's team in Sialk in 1934: Bottom row, sitting from R to L: Roman Ghirshman, Tania Ghirshman, and Georges Contenau.
Born(1895-10-03)October 3, 1895
Kharkiv, Sloboda Ukraine
DiedSeptember 5, 1979(1979-09-05) (aged 83)
Budapest, Hungary

Roman Ghirshman (Russian: Роман Михайлович Гиршман, Roman Mikhailovich Girshman; October 3, 1895 – 5 September 1979) was a Ukrainian-born French archeologist who specialized in ancient Persia.[1][2] Ghirshman spent nearly thirty years excavating ancient Persian archeological sites throughout Iran and Afghanistan.[1]

  1. ^ a b Bahn, Paul (2014-01-10). The History of Archaeology: An Introduction. Routledge. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-317-99942-3.
  2. ^ "GHIRSHMAN, ROMAN". Encyclopaedia Iranica Online. doi:10.1163/2330-4804_eiro_com_2095. Retrieved 2021-09-19.