Keywords:
history of Iran and Centra Asia
religion
Iran
history
Iranian philology
history of sciences and pseudo-sciences in antiquity
multiculturalism
Editions and commented translations of Avestan and Zoroastrian
sources; the Zoroastrian priestly college and its Indo-Iranian background. The concept of time in the pre-Islamic Iranian world. The introdution oif the apokatastasis in Iranian eschatology. investigation on the Manichaean sources of Central Asia
(Middle-Persian, Parthian, Sogdian) and their relations with
other Manichaean and Gnostic texts (Chinese and Uigur, but also
Greek and Latin) and with Buddhist and Christian sources of Iran
and Central Asia. Study of the Old Persian documents at the light
of the political and religious history of the Achaemenian Empire in
its multicultural relation with other ancient societies
(Mesopotamia, Greece and India). Researches on the cultural
heritage of the ancient Sogdiana and Bactriana: Iranian,
Hellenistic and Indian elements; Chinese and Turanian influences. History of the ancient Iranian calendrical systems, of
the Iranian uranography and its astral mythology including the
development of Hellenistic astrology in Sasanian times. The diplomatic relations between Iran and Byzantium.