Nicholas J Sims

A selection of 25 important articles and reviews by the distinguished Iranianist Ily Gershevitch is reprinted in this volume marking the occason of his 70th birthday. The articles, all written in English, orginally appeared between 1942 and 1977 were corrected and updated for this edition. This volu...

During the last twenty years, more than 150 documents in Bactrian, the language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light. These documents, which have been deciphered and published by Nicholas Sims-Williams, provide unique information on the history of Afghanistan and neighbouring lands in the ...

Bactrian was the principal language of administration in what is now Afghanistan from the time of the Kushan empire (1st to 3rd centuries C.E.) until the early Islamic period. The surviving Bactrian inscriptions and documents, coins and countermarks, seals and sealings attest a large number of perso...

In 1972, the first Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) Review Conference was considered a major event; this book describes the evolution of the disarmament regime of the BTWC from 1980 until 1998. Applying an original sector-by-sector approach to its analysis of the BTWC, this book studie...