Ali Akbar Sarfaraz (Persian: علیاکبر سرافراز; 1927 – 9 February 2024) was an Iranian archaeologist.[1]
Sarfaraz was once a member of the Archaeological Service of Iran.[2]
In 1962, Sarfaraz was a member of a team that excavated an Iron Age site in Yanik Tepe.[3] The excavation uncovered an artifact made of bone and resembling a pair of spectacles buried with the body of a girl.[3] If, as Sarfaraz hypothesized, this artifact once held lenses, they would represent the earliest known use of corrective lenses.[3]
From 1976 to 1977, Sarfaraz led a "rescue excavation" at Khatunban after artifacts plundered from the site were confiscated.[4]
In 1999, Sarfaraz directed the excavation of Charkhab Palace of Cyrus the Great.[5]
Sarfaraz died on 9 February 2024, at the age of 96.[6]
^"Annual symposium of Iranian archaeologists opens". IRIB World Service. 16 December 2012. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
^Abdi, Kamyar (1999). "Archaeological Research in the Islamabad Plain, Central Western Zagros Mountains: Preliminary Results from the First Season, Summer 1998". Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies. 37: 36. doi:10.1080/05786967.1999.11834596.
^ abcMir Ghaffar Sahihi Oskooei; Hormoz Chams; Mohammad Ghassemi Boroumand; Hale Kangari; Ali Salahi Yekta; Hamid Soori; Seyed Mahmoud Tabatabaei Far; Aydin Safati (2010). "Discovery of A Spectacle Made in Millennia BC". Iranian Journal of Ophthalmology. 22 (3).
^B. Overlaet; Louis vanden Berghe (2003). The Early Iron Age in the Pusht-i Kuh, Luristan. Peeters. p. 45. ISBN 9789042912434.
^"Cyrus the Great' Palace Faces Total Destruction". ANI. 4 October 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
^علیاکبر سرافراز درگذشت (in Persian)
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