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Elizabeth Carter received her bachelor of arts and doctorate in ancient Near Eastern civilizations from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. She is currently a professor of Near Eastern archaeology and the chair of the Near Eastern languages and cultures department at UCLA.  She is interested in the social and cultural history of ancient Elam (southwestern and south central Iran) and carried out excavations at two of its major cities, Anshan and Susa. Her most recent publications include “Resisting Empire: Elam in the First Millennium B.C.” in Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams, edited by Elizabeth Stone and “Landscapes of Death in Susiana during the Last Half of the Second Millennium B.C.” in Elam and Persia, edited by Mark Garrison and Javier Mons-Alvarez.

About the Trip

Join UCLA Professor Elizabeth Carter on a journey through Iran where vast monuments serve as a vivid testament to the history of the country. Beyond Tehran visit the historic city of Kerman and the town of Yazd, a center of Zoroastrianism, where wind-towers rise majestically from the desert. In Shiraz discover hidden gardens and the magnificent site of Persepolis with its monumental ruins strewn across a grassy plain. End the program in Isfahan, a town of unsurpassed beauty whose buildings have long been recognized as the perfection of Islamic architecture. Iran is a welcoming country of contrasts, of glittering water canals, of golden landscapes punctuated by crumbling clay-baked caravansaries and everywhere a horizon pierced by mosques and turquoise-clad minarets.

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