Roman Ghirshman

Roman Ghirshman
Роман Гиршман
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. Ghirshman spent nearly thirty years excavating ancient Persian archeological sites throughout Iran and Afghanistan.

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