Michael Douglas Roaf (born 20 May 1947) is a British

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

specialising in ancient Iranian studies and Assyriology. Roaf studied the archaeology of Western Asia at

University College London University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...

, and wrote his doctoral thesis, ''Sculptures and Sculptors at Persepolis'' (published 1983) at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

. From 1981 to 1985 he was the director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. He also taught at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, and is currently Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Munich. Roaf has conducted fieldwork in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Bahrain. In Iran he dug at Tepe Nush-i Jan under the direction of David Stronach, with whom he wrote ''Nush-i Jan I. The Major Buildings of the Median Settlement''. With the Munich University team, he has recently worked on the archaeological expeditions at Gircano and Ziyaret Tepe, ancient Tushhan,

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Works

* ''Sculptures and Sculptors at Persepolis'' (1983) - doctoral thesis. Published in full in ''Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies'' vol. XXI, 1983. * ''The Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East'' (1990) - divulgation. * ''Continuity of Empire (?): Assyria, Media, Persia'' (2003) - Proceedings of the International Meeting held in Padova, 2001; ed. with Giovanni B. Lanfranchi and Robert Rollinger.

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The World of Achaemenid Persia
British archaeologists English Assyriologists British Iranologists Alumni of University College London University of California, Berkeley faculty Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Living people 1947 births {{UK-archaeologist-stub