Ali Akbar Sarfaraz
Dr. Ali Akbar Sarfaraz is an archaeologist from Iran.
He was formerly a member of the Archaeological Service of Iran.
In 1962, Sarfaraz was a member of a team which excavated an Iron Age site in Yanik Tepe. The excavation uncovered an artifact made of bone and resembling a pair of spectacles buried with the body of a girl. If, as Sarfaraz hypothesized, this artifact once held lenses, they would represent the earliest known use of corrective lenses.
In 1976-77, Sarfaraz led a "rescue excavation" at Khatunban after artifacts plundered from the site were confiscated.
In 1999, Sarfaraz directed the excavation of Charkhab Palace of Cyrus the Great.
