Professor Pierre Briant was born in 1940in Angou. He enrolled studied at provatier University, studying and studied the Agregation period in history in 1965. in January 1972, under the tutorship of P. Luc, he received his doctorate in literature (Ancient History) from the University of Beaux en Sonne. From 1970, his research became more focused on the Achaemenid period, whose first product is a work by the name of "Robbery, Expansion, and Disintegration (DHA II, 1976), in which the author has examined the agricultural farming societies of the Zagross area during the reign of the Achaemenids.