Persépolis avant Persépolis

The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, in collaboration with Pointe-à-Callière have the pleasure of inviting you to the conference of Pierfrancesco Callieri, Professor of Iran's pre-Islamic Archeology at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna: Persepolis before Persepolis: the Iranian-Italian excavations at Tole Ajori, Fars, VI century BC (presented in French). The Joint Iran-Italy Archaeological Mission in the Fars region (southern Iran), under the leadership of Alireza Askari Chaverdi (Shiraz University) and Pierfrancesco Callieri (University of Bologna), has been conducting a research program on urban contexts since 2008 and rural of great architectural complex of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty (sixth to fourth century BC.) known by its Greek name of Persepolis. The Iranian-Italian project, named "From the Palace to the City", is characterized by its multidisciplinary approach and its stratigraphic excavations followed the results of the geophysical surveys conducted by a French-Iranian mission.

Places limited – RSVP by June 22 to Laura Molé: [email protected].