Persepolis and Ancient Iran, containing about 900 photographs printed from the original field negatives, gives a comprehensive pictorial chronicle of archaeological sites in ancient Iran. Some of the photographs were taken during 1931–34 under Professor Ernst Herzfeld, but most date from 1934–39, when Professor Erich F. Schmidt was field director of the Iran expeditions of the Oriental Institute (now the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures).
A large number of photographs included in this text/fiche have never before been published. Others have been included in University of Chicago Press publications.
The material is organized according to the order of the following publications:
- Erich F. Schmidt
- Persepolis I: Structures, Reliefs, Inscriptions, OIP LXVIII (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1953);
- Persepolis II: Contents of the Treasury and Other Discoveries, OIP LXIX (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957);
- Persepolis III: The Royal Tombs and Other Monuments, OIP LXX (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970);
- Alexander Langsdorff and Donald E. McCown
- Tall-i-Bakun A, Season of 1932, OIP LIX (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942);
- Erich F. Schmidt
- The Treasury ofPersepolis and Other Discoveries in the Homeland of the Achaemenians, OIC 21 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939);
- Flights over Ancient Cities of Iran, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940).
