Biography
Antigoni Zournatzi-Tsami (BA Classics/Classical Archaeology, Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges; MA & PhD Near Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley) is Director of Research at the Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens, Greece). Her special areas of study are the interconnections of the ancient Greek world with the Near East, ancient Cyprus, and the Achaemenid Empire.
She has authored Persian Rule in Cyprus (2005), and co-edited Επιγραφές της Θράκης του Αιγαίου: μεταξύ των ποταμών Νέστου και Έβρου (2005), and Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters (2008 – “World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, 2010). Her current research focuses on archaeological evidence that relates to the Greek presence and Iranian-Greek interactions in Iran in antiquity.