Ali Akbar Sarfaraz

Dr. Ali Akbar Sarfaraz is an archaeologist from Iran.[1]

He was formerly a member of the Archaeological Service of Iran.[2]

In 1962, Sarfaraz was a member of a team which excavated an Iron Age site in Yanik Tepe.[3] The excavation uncovered an artifact made of bone and resembling a pair of spectacles buried with the body of a girl.[3] If, as Sarfaraz hypothesized, this artifact once held lenses, they would represent the earliest known use of corrective lenses.[3]

In 1976-77, Sarfaraz led a "rescue excavation" at Khatunban after artifacts plundered from the site were confiscated.[4] In 1999, Sarfaraz directed the excavation of Charkhab Palace of Cyrus the Great.[5]

References
  1. "Annual symposium of Iranian archaeologists opens". IRIB World Service. 16 December 2012. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  2. "Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies". 37. 1999: 36. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Mir Ghaffar Sahihi Oskooei; Hormoz Chams; Mohammad Ghassemi Boroumand; Hale Kangari; Ali Salahi Yekta; Hamid Soori; Seyed Mahmoud Tabatabaei Far; Aydin Safati (2010). "Discovery of A Spectacle Made in Millennia BC". Iranian Journal of Ophthalmology. 22 (3).
  4. B. Overlaet; Louis vanden Berghe (2003). The Early Iron Age in the Pusht-i Kuh, Luristan. Peeters. p. 45.
  5. "Cyrus the Great' Palace Faces Total Destruction". ANI. 4 October 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2013.


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