Hamadān (Ecbatana): ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS
Reports on fieldwork
Azarnoush, M. 1975. 'Survey of Excavations in Iran: 1973-4. Hamadan.' Iran 13: 181-182.
Azarnoush, M. 1386/2007. 'Gozāreš moqadamāti-ye kāvošhāye lāyešenākhi Tepe-ye hegmatāneh Hamadān’ ['Preliminary report on the stratigraphic excavations at Tappeh Hegmataneh']. Gozārešhāye Bāstānshenāsi (7). Nohomin gerdehamāi-ye sālāne-ye Bāstānshenāsi-ye Iran [Archaeological Reports (7). The 9th Annual Symposium on Iranian Archaeology], vol. 1. Tehran: 19-160.
Chevalier, N. 1989. 'Hamadan 1913. Une mission oubliée.' Iranica antiqua 24: 245-253.
Dyson, R. H. J. 1957. 'Iran, 1956.' University Museum Bulletin (University of Pennsylvania) 21/1: 31-33.
Hozhabri, A. (ed.) 2013. A Collection of Archaeological and Historical Articles on Hamedan, Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the First Season of Excavations in Hamedan. Tehran.
Mehryār, M. 1342/1963. 'Pīš-darāmad-e yak barnāma-ye ʿaẓīm-e bāstān-šenāsī dar Tappa-ye Hagmatāna' [‘An introduction to a major archeological program at the site of Hagmatana’]. In Gozārešhā-ye majmaʿ-e sālāna-ye kāveš wa pažūhešhā-ye bāstān-šenāsī dar Īrān [Annual Symposium on Excavations and Studies in Iranian Archaeology]. Tehran: 41-50.
Sarraf, M. R. 2003. 'Archaeological excavations in Tepe Ekbatana (Hamadan) by the Iranian Archaeological Mission between 1983 and 1999.’ In Lanfranchi, G. B., Roaf, M. and Rollinger, R. (eds.), Continuity of Empire (?) Assyria, Media, Persia. History of the Ancient Near East / Monographs – V. Padova: 269-279.
Swiny, S. 1975. 'Survey in north-west Iran, 1971.' East and West 25: 77-97.
Overviews of archaeological exploration and discoveries
Boucharlat, R. 2005. 'Iran.' In Briant, P. and Boucharlat, R. (eds.), L'archéologie de l'empire achéménide: nouvelles recherches, actes du colloque organisé au Collège de France par le ‘Réseau international d'études et de recherches achéménides’ (GDR 2538 CNRS), 21-22 novembre 2003. Persika 6. Paris: 253-254.
Boucharlat, R. 2012. 'Tappeh Hegmataneh and ancient Ecbatana.' In Fahimi, H. and Alizadeh, K. (eds.), Nāmvarnāmeh. Papers in Honor of Massoud Azarnoush. Tehran: 120-130.
Brown, S. C. 1997. 'Ecbatana.' Encyclopædia Iranica, vol. VIII: 80-84. An updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ecbatana (accessed on December 8, 2011).
Hozhabri, A. 2012. 'Revision of the Hegmataneh relative chronology based on cultural materials.' In Fahimi, H. and Alizadeh, K. (eds.), Nāmvarnāmeh. Papers in Honor of Massoud Azarnoush. Tehran: 246-253.
Hozhabri, A. (ed.) 2013. A Collection of Archaeological and Historical Articles on Hamedan, Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the First Season of Excavations in Hamedan. Tehran.
Stronach, D. 2003. 'Independent Media: archaeological notes from the homeland.' In Lanfranchi, G. B., Roaf, M. and Rollinger, R. (eds.), Continuity of Empire (?): Assyria, Media, Persia. History of the Ancient Near East / Monographs - V. Padova: 242-245.
Stronach D. 2012. 'Builders for the ages: Elamites, Medes, Achaemenids and Parthians (1500 BC - 224 AD).' In Stronach, D. and Mousavi, A. (eds.), Ancient Iran from the Air, Photographs by Georg Gerster. Darmstad and Mainz: 53-56.
