Finally a very short list of works written on ancient Persia. I should add that the most reliable and in-depth studies on the ancient Persian culture and mythoi are in Farsi, German, French and Hindi (works by Hashem Razi, Mehrdad Bahar, Jehangir Cawarji Coyajee, Henrik Samuel Nyberg, Hans Reichelt, et al.) which have not been translated to English.
A Mesopotamia reading list will be posted soon.
(Apologies to friends and Hyperstition readers for the delay in posting this list.)
Hans Reichelt, Avesta reader: Texts, notes, glossary and index, Strassburg, 1911.
E. G. Browne, A Year amongst the Persians, Cambridge, 1927.
J. C. Pavry, The Zoroastrian Doctrine of a Future Life from Death to Individual Judgement, New York, 1929.
I. J. Modi, The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of Parsees, Bombay, 1937.
R. Girshman, Iran, from the Earliest Times to the Islamic Conquest, Pelican Archeology Series, 1954.
M. J Vermaseren, Mithras, the secret god, Barnes & Noble, 1963.
Ila Gershevitch, The Avestan Hymn to Mithra, Cambridge, 1967.
R. C. Zaehner, Zurvan: A Zoroastrian Dilemma, Biblo-Moser, 1972.
R. C. Zaehner, The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism, 1976.
J. Darmesteter, The Zend-Avesta of Zarathustra, Holmes Pub Grou Llc, 1984.
Mary Boyce, Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism (Textual Sources for the Study of Religion), University Of Chicago Press, 1990.
David Ulansey, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Franz Cumont, The Mysteries of Mitra, Kessinger Publishing, 1997.
Mary Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices), Routledge, 2001.
J. H. Moulton, Early Zoroastrianism, Kessinger Publishing, 2005.