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Nicholas Sims-Williams

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Nicholas Sims-Williams is a professor of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London,[1] where he is the Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies at the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East. Sims-Williams is a scholar who specializes in Central Asian history, particularly the study of Sogdian and Bactrian languages. He is also a member of the advisory council of the Iranian Studies Journal.

Publications

His published works include:

  • "Sogdian and other Iranian inscriptions of the Upper Indus II, London (1992)
  • "Bactrian ownership inscriptions" BAI 7, pp173–9 (1993)
  • "New light on ancient Afghanistan: the decipherment of Bactrian", London (1997)
  • "Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan I: Legal and economic documents" Oxford ISBN 0197275028 (2000)
  • "Recent discoveries in the Bactrian language and their historical significance", Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage (Afghanistan). (2004)
  • "Some Bactrian seal-inscriptions" in "Afghanistan, ancien carrefour entre l'est et l'ouest" BREPOLS ISBN 2503516815

References

  1. ^ "Achaemenid inscription names uncle of Darius in Old Persian for first time". Tehran Times. 13 April 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-13.
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