Touraj Daryaee

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Touraj Daryaee (born 1967 in Tehran, Iran) is a contemporary Persian Iranologist and historian.

His elementary and secondary schooling was in Tehran, Iran and Athens, Greece. Daryaee took his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. He specializes in the history and culture of Ancient Persia.^[1]

He is an associate professor of Ancient History at California State University, Fullerton. He is also the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies,^[2] as well as the director of Sasanika Project, a project on the history and culture of Sasanians.

[edit] See also

• Iranology
• Persian history

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[edit] External links

• Official Homepage
• Sasanika project
• Touraj Daryaee's articles in Iranian.com
• Go Tell the Spartans: How the 300 Misrepresents Persians in History