Medvedskaya I.N. Ancient Iran on the Eve of Empires (9—6 В. C.). The History of the Median Kingdom. St Petersburg, Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie Publishers 2010. 264 p.
The book surveys the history of the Median kingdom, the first Iranian state founded in the first half of the 7th century B.C. which continued to 550 B.C., when the Median throne passed to the Achaemenid dynasty.
On December 18, 2018, the Second Academic Conference 'Source Studies and Historiography of the Countries of the Near and Middle East' in memory of V.F. Minorsky (1877-1966) will be held at the IOM RAS.
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