TEHRAN – Iranian scholars have been invited to an international seminar on cultural exchange on antiquity, to be held in the Indian capital of New Delhi from January 7 to 9.
Scholars Dariush Akbarzadeh, Fariba Sharifian, Katayun Fekripur and Azadeh Heidarpur are scheduled to attend the three-day seminar, which has been organized by the Center for Community Knowledge and the Ambedkar University Delhi.
An international group of archaeologists, historians, linguists, epigraphers, art historians and historians of science and technology are expected to attend the seminar entitled “Cross Cultural Knowledge Exchange in Antiquity: Interactions between Greece, Iran, India and China”.
The seminar seeks to offer a unified perspective on the mutual interaction of Greek, Indian, Iranian and Chinese cultures in the wider Indian domain in the period of antiquity, the university has announced on its website.
It also hopes to achieve further collaboration among ancient Indian, Iranian, Chinese and Greek studies.
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