Der folgende Konferenzband enthält große Zahl wichtiger Beiträge zur Geschichte und Archäologie der Meder:
- Lanfranchi, G. B. - Roaf, M. - Rollinger, R. <ed.>: Continuity of empire (?). Assyria, Media, Persia. Padova 2003 (=History of the Ancient Near East/Monographs, V).
Mehr zur medischen Geschichte bringen die folgenden Studien:
- Brown, S. C.: The Mêdikos Logos of Herodotus and the evolution of the Median state. In: Achaemenid history III. Method and theory. Proceedings of the London 1985 Achaemenid history workshop. Ed. by A. Kuhrt and H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg. Leiden 1988, pp. 71-86
- Sancisi-Weerdenburg, H.: Was there ever a Median empire? In: Achaemenid history III. Method and theory. Proceedings of the London 1985 Achaemenid history workshop. Ed. by A. Kuhrt and H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg. Leiden 1988, pp. 197-212
- Young, T. C.: The early history of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid empire to the death of Cyrus the Great. In: The Cambridge Ancient History. Second edition. Vol. IV. Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean c. 525 to 479 B.C. Ed. by J. Boardman (et al.). Cambridge 1988, pp. 1-52.
Weitere Arbeiten zur medischen Archäologie und Kunst:
- Barnett, R. D.: Median art. In: Iranica Antiqua (Gent) vol. II, 1962, pp. 77-95
- Genito, B.: The Medes - a reassessment of the archaeological evidence. In: East and West (Rome), vol. 36, 1986, pp. 11-81
- Roaf, M.: Media and Mesopotamia: history and architecture. In: Later Mesopotamia and Iran: Tribes and empires 1600-539 BC. Ed. by J. Curtis. London 1995, pp. 54-66
- Genito, B.: The archaeology of the Median period: an outline and a research perspective. In: Iranica Antiqua, vol. XL, 2005, pp. 315-340.
Die Hauptstadt der Meder war Ekbatana (im Stadtgebiet des heutigen Hamadan):
- Boucharlat, R.: À la récherche d'Ecbatane sur Tepe Hegmataneh. In: Iranica Antiqua, vol. XXXIV, 1, 1999, pp. 173-186
- Brown, S. C.: Ecbatana. In: Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. VIII, 1998, pp. 80-84
