Roman Ghirshman
![Ghirshman's team in [[Sialk]] in 1934: Bottom row, sitting from R to L: Roman Ghirshman, [[Tania Ghirshman]], and [[Georges Contenau]].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Ghirshman_team.jpg)
Roman Ghirshman (, ''Roman Mikhailovich Girshman''; October 3, 1895 – 5 September 1979) was a Ukrainian-born French archeologist who specialized in ancient Persia. Ghirshman spent nearly thirty years excavating ancient Persian archeological sites throughout Iran and Afghanistan.
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