Abdul Majid Arfaei, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Abdul Majid Arfaei

Iranian archaeologist and linguist

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1939

Place of Birth: Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran

Profession: translator, archaeologist, linguist

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Abdul Majid Arfaei

  • Abdul Majid Arfaei (Persian: ????????? ?????) (September 1, 1939) is an Iranian researcher and Elamitologist.
  • He has finished translating 647 tablets, related to the era of Darius the Great, which were read by Richard Hallock.
  • The works are included in the first volume of the series. Richard Treadwell Hallock, Elamologist and Assyriologist, was a professor of Chicago University.
  • The late professor, who read the bulk of the Persepolis Elamite tablets, died in 1980.
  • Arfaei, the renowned expert of Elamite, Avestan and Pahlavi languages, is the founder of the Inscriptions Hall of Iran’s National Museum and has written a number of books on Iranian history.
  • The Iranian expert has also translated more than 2,500 Persepolis inscriptions, which are housed at Chicago University.
  • In Iran, the Cyrus Cylinder has been translated into Persian, by Arfaei for the first time.

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