Glass, Gilding, and Grand Design: Art of Sasanian Iran (224-642) presents masterpieces illustrating the splendor of the court arts of the Sasanian dynasty, which ruled the ancient Near East from the ...
An ancient sculpture illicitly carved from a rock relief in Iran will soon go on display at the British Museum before being repatriated to the National Museum in Tehran. Carved in calcareous limestone ...
The Sasanian emperors minted a considerable number of silver coins, known as drachms (pronounced ‘drams’). The royal portraits on these coins allow for the identification of kings depicted in other ...
Istakhr (also spelled Estakhr) is located in the vicinity of the UNESCO-registered Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550–330 BC). The tall stone gateway, which sits next ...
A Newly Discovered Administrative Center of the Late Sasanian Empire: Tappe Bardnakoon, Farsan, Iran
The two first seasons of excavation at the large settlement of Tappe Bardnakoon unearthed remarkable archaeological material, in-cluding huge architectural structures, a large corpus of 559 clay ...
Prolegomena : Ancient Iran in the context of world history -- 1. Iran before the Sasanians -- 2. Ardaxšīr I and the establishment of the Sasanian Empire -- 3. Šābuhr I : The strongest world Empire in ...
Photo taken on March 28, 2018 shows the Shahr-i-Gholghola or the City of Screams, site of the Sasanian Empire (AD 224-651), in Bamyan province, Afghanistan. The site, along with other historical sites ...
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