Iran : from the earliest time to the Islamic conquest /
By R. Ghirshman.
- Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, [1965].
- 368 p. : ill., plates, maps
- Pelican books, A 239 .
A volume in the Pelican Archaeology series. English version first published 1954 [ A French version was published by Payot, Paris, in 1951]. The story of Persia from earliest times until its unique Iranian civilization was transformed by the Islamic Conquest. The book has 48 pages of plates and many line illustrations.