Dr Kaveh Farrokh was born in Athens, Greece, in 1962 and immigrated to Canada in 1983. Kaveh has collected data and primary sources on Sassanian cavalry for 18 years resulting in travels to locations such as Naghshe-Rustam (Iran). He has given lectures and seminars in the University of British Columbia and the Knowledge Network Television Program of British Columbia and has written articles for various journals. Kaveh obtained his PhD in 2001 from the University of British Columbia where he specialized on the acquisition of Persian languages. He is currently a learning and career specialist in Langara College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He acted as a historical advisor on a film film project titled 'Cyrus the Great', and has appeared on the History Channel documentary as an expert on the Persian Empire. Professor Richard Nelson Frye is an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University. He has researched the history and culture of Iran for over six decades.

He founded the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, the first Iranian studies program in America, and has written many books including The Golden Age of Persia (1977) and The Heritage of Central Asia (1996).