Takht-i Sangin (Tajikistan) with view on temple and confluence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers, the source of the Amu Darya, in the background
The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Non-Western Borderlands: A Change of Paradigm
The conference will once again centre on the Achaemenid Empire and those borderlands that research has only sporadically looked at so far: the Central Asian east, India and the Indian Ocean in the south-east, as well as the steppe regions in the north and north-east. The focus here is on interactions not only in spatial but also in temporal dimensions and thus on the systematic recording of innovations, breaks and continuities.
Organized by Robert Rollinger (Innsbruck)
Fri 21 November – Sat 22 November, 2025
Innsbruck, Austria
Kindly supported by
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [Grant-DOI: 10.55776/COE8], Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations. Resources of the Past & Challenges of Diversity”
University of California, Los Angeles, Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World