Median and Assyrian relationship

کتاب حاضر مجموعه مقالاتی است که مستقیم یا غیرمستقیم با تاریخ ماد پیوند می‌یابند. به‌عبارت‌دیگر، مقالات حاضر، تاریخ ماد را نه تنها از منظر خودِ ماد، بلکه در چشم‌اندازی گسترده‌تر و در ارتباط با همسایگانش (به‌ویژه آشور و بابل) بررسی کرده‌اند. نکته‌ی دیگر آنکه، مقالات این کتاب صرفاً به تاریخ سیاسی نمی‌پردازند، بلکه تلاش شده است پژوهش‌هایی در زمینه‌های باستان‌شناسی، جغرافیای تاریخی، ادیان، و زبان‌شناسی نیز در این مجموعه گنجانده شوند.

Given the colorful and almost comprehensive variety of seventh century BCE Near Eastern states mentioned by Herodotus, his omission of the kingdom of Urartu is somewhat puzzling. The question of Herodotus' apparent ignorance of the Urartians has not been explored in depth, however, perhaps because his account of early Median history often diverges from that of the Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles. 2 P. Zimansky suggests simply that an early destruction of Urartu, around 640 BCE, would have precluded significant contact between the Urartians and the Medes, upon whose institutional memory much of Herodotus' account was based. 3 This paper will argue that Urartu is present, albeit incorrectly identified, in the Medikos logos of Herodotus'

The Iron Age of the Iranian central plateau was first investigated 70 years ago at
Tepe Sialk near Kashan (Ghirshman 1939). At this site, the upper archaeological
levels indicate the remains of the Iranian-speaking people who founded the Median
kingdom and subsequently the Achaemenid Empire. Today, as well as Sialk, we
know of several important Late Iron Age sites such as Shamshirgāh (Kleiss 1983)
and Qoli-Darvish (Sarlak 2011). For example, the recently discovered Late Iron Age
cemetery at Sarm has produced archaeological materials which are so similar to
those found at Sialk that the site could even be thought of as a 'second Sialk' in
southern Qom (Fahimi 2004).