#  The Importance of Middle Eastern Archaeology to Middle Eastern History  

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 5, 2018** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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



 

 



 

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  **The Center for Middle Eastern studies**

 *presents*

 **The Importance of Middle Eastern Archaeology to Middle Eastern History**

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

 Born in Rome, 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](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mail.google.com_mail_-3Fview-3Dcm-26fs-3D1-26tf-3D1-26to-3Delizabethflanagan-40fas.harvard.edu&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=IH4gp2pJBEIuE4nOSsGT1T7UNRTfOdMgZW1aMQcmB8PV5PTpz9wCLXT29XH1ZQSN&m=C0l52zWnEFJQy5WYr4gfNnOn9z9pUNdY9yf_MQU8IEE&s=bTqgwvx3rUVmFGE-hg7ROGlpxFO6ZIjyAvoMrk9x2mc&e=)  
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