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Alireza Shapour Shahbazi

(1942-2006)
Iranian archaeologit
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Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (4 September 1942 Shiraz - 15 July 2006 Walla Walla, Washington) (Persian: علیرضا شاپور شهبازی‎) was a prominent Persian archeologist, Iranologist and a world expert on Achaemenid archeology. Shahbazi got a BA degree in and an MA degree in East Asian archeology from SOAS. Shahbazi had a doctorate degree in Achaemenid archeology from University of London. Alireza Shapour Shahbazi was a lecturer in Achaemenid archeology and Iranology at Harvard University. He was also a full professor of Archeology at Shiraz University and founded at Persepolis the Institute of Achaemenid Research in 1974. After the Islamic revolution, he moved to the USA, firstly teaching at Columbia University and then later becoming a full professor of history in Eastern Oregon University.

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Born
4 September 1942
Shiraz, Iran
Died
16 June 2006 (aged 63)
Washington D.C., United States
Zodiac Virgo
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