#  The Importance of Middle Eastern Archaeology to Middle Eastern History 

 



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 **March 5, 2018** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 **The Center for Middle Eastern Studies** presents

 **Rocco Rante,** Researcher-Archaeologist, Louvre Museum, Paris

 An expert on the archaeology & history of Iranian cultural regions, Rocco Rante received his PhD in Archaeology and the History of Islamic Art at the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille) in 2009; his dissertation was titled: *Rayy: développement de l’urbanisme et culture matérielle (IIe av. J.C.-XIe siècles)*. He has worked as a researcher-archaeologist at The Louvre since 2008. His publications include: *The Greater Khorasan. Actes of the Round Table*, ed. Rante ed., Studien Zur Geschichte Und Kultur Des Islamischen Orients, De Gruyter, March 2015; *Rayy: from its origins to the Mongol invasion. An Archaeological and Historiographical Study*, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2015; *Nishapur revisited: Stratigraphy and Pottery of the Qohandez*, Annabelle Collinet, Oxbow Books and Louvre, Oxford 2013; "Urban Topography of Iran and Central Asia at the Early Islamic period", *The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology*, Walker ed., Oxford 2015; “'Proper Khorasan' & 'Great Khorasan', within a politico-cultural framework", *The Greater Khorasan. Actes of the Round Table*, Rante ed., Supplément de Der Islam, De Gruyter, Berlin 2015.

 **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

 

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