Talk:Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War/Archive 1

Definitive work?
The article is no longer a quote farm or an "advert" so I took those templates out. I also removed some of the sentences or changed them around. I also added that the book has received favourable reviews by such notable scholars as....Hajji Piruz 03:48, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

It's still an advert. This seems to be an ok book on Iranian antiquity, written by an Iranian patriot, but it is far from being a "definitive" work. The "Indo-European" stuff referred to is just dodgy. So, big surprise, we have a $COUNTRY patriot writing about the ancient history of $COUNTRY, and lo and behold, it turns out that $COUNTRY is in fact the PIE Urheimat. I ask you. From his involvement in the recent Cyrus cylinder stunt, it becomes evident that the author is more interested in glorifying ancient Iran than in a serious appraisal of the historical period. --dab (𒁳) 10:00, 20 September 2008 (UTC)