The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination — exhibition held from 11th October 2013 to 14th December 2013, in the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London. ‘One of the world’s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism originated amongst Iranian tribes in Central Asia during the second millennium BCE and spread to Iran where it became the principal faith until the advent of Islam. Central to the religion is the belief in a sole creator god, Ahura Mazda, his emissary Zarathustra (Zoroaster) and the dichotomy between good and evil. The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and …
First Friday Lecture of the Michaelmas Term
Dr Cameron Petrie (Lecturer in South Asian and Iranian Archaeology, Cambridge and Trustee of the Ancient India and Iran Trust) on ‘Frontiers and Edges of Empires: Living in the Borderlands of Pakistan from the Neolithic to the Spread of Islam’ Lecture begins at 5.30pm — Please contact the Administrator to reserve a place: email: info@indiran.org, tel: 01223 356841 There will be a reception with light refreshments from 5.00 pm 23 Brooklands Avenue Cambridge CB2 8BG
Armenian Manuscripts at the Cambridge University Library
Some of the Trust’s Armenian manuscripts will be on display tomorrow (Wednesday 8th May) at the Cambridge University Library, as part of an event to celebrate the publication of Dr Vrej Nersessian’s catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Library. Talk, reception and display from 5pm at the UL. More information at http://ow.ly/i/1YY4H/original
Winter 2012 Indiran
Winter’s edition of the Trust newsletter, INDIRAN, is now available to download as a PDF via this link: downsized indiran
Review of ‘From the Oxus to Mysore in 1951’
From the Oxus to Mysore in 1951 by Raymond & Bridget Allchin (Harding Simpole, 2012) Review by Anna Collar reprinted from INDIRAN 7 (Winter 2012) Bridget and Raymond Allchin’s account of a year of archaeology and travel in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in 1951 is an unusual combination of history, anecdote, memories and observation, switching between the voices of the authors. It opens with some extraordinary recollections of their early lives: Raymond throwing an (unopened) tin of tomato soup at his sister; dancing naked on the windowsills of their Ealing home …