INTRODUCTORY ISSUES ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL ACHAEMENID HORIZONS

What the “Achaemenid” archaeological horizons may mean" is the main issue of this article. Indeed, the archaeological issues related to the Achaemenid archaeological horizons, as well as that important political unity and dynastic line in the history of the Ancient Near East and the ancient world in general, have never been easy to approach and have rarely been studied with sufficient depth. Those issues have represented both the required benchmark for the educational programs that the author has been heading during his professorship at this University and the outcome of a long professional history that began decades ago in the same institution.