Greater Iran

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary

Tepe sialk, Jar from the fourth millennium BCE, decorated with ibexes

Map of the world of the Scythians

Behistun, Parthian rock reliefs

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Charax

Axe in the shape of a two-headed demon, mastering a boar and a dragon (Early Bronze Age)

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief, drawing

Kangavar, Portico

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Bactrians

Sarmatian roundel

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Eagle-shaped Scythian brooche

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sakâ tigrakhaudâ

Zurmala stupa

Zagros, Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Chorasmian coin

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Brickwork

A mountain valley

Balkh, Corinthian capital

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arachosian

Hamadan, Bull's head

Afrosiab, Sogdian weapons

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot (2)

Athens, Black-figured dish with a Scythian archer

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Two Medes

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arachosians

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Tepe Godin, Map

Ahuan, general view of the edge of the Dasht-e Kavir

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Iron Age ring from Hyrcania/Parthia

Kara Tepe, Head

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk handle

Mountain plain

Gotarzes II

Kyrgyzstan

Map of Sogdia

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

Isfahan, Zayandeh Rud (and the Si-o-se Bridge)

The river Oxus

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief II

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sagartian

Vologases III

Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)

Kangavar, General view

Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Tepe Sialk, Cup from the first millennium

Susa, Parthian jar

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Arachosians

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Kara Tepe, Relief

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Afrosiab, Ruins

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Gabae, Hill

Tepe Sialk, Cup from the fourth millennium decorated with a human figure

Zoilus of Bactria

Iranian Azerbaijan, Stone weight

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Gilded disk from the Astrakhan area

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence" (1)

Osroes I

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sogdian

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Arsaces I

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Afrosiab, Ruins

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject m'dy (OP. Mâda = Media)

Hatra, Temple of Šamaš

Demetrius I of Bactria

Orodes III

Vonones I

Hatra, Statue of Shahiro (?), the morning star

Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby

Tus, Wall (in its present form Seljuk)

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

Afrosiab, Persian dish

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Entrance to the fort

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

Afrosiab, Figurine of Anahita

Oxus, FIsherman

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject sg?shkš (OP Sâka = Scythians)

Vologases VI

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Afrosiab, Sogdian helmet

Phraataces

Bowl from Tepe Hesar I

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Tapioszentmarton, Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Tepe Sialk, Iron ore

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

The Avestan world

Tepe Sialk, Strata

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Hecatompylos, Sherds on the plain

Tepe Godin, The deep sounding

Eburz near Ahuan

Susa, Relief of Artabanus IV

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Iranian Azerbaijan, Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Koktepa, Mirror

Hatra, seen from the air

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Wall of the fort

Hatra, Parthian pottery

Phraates III

Eshaqvan, Rock tombs, seen from a distance

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb

Hatra, Relief of an eagle, a military standard, and the Sun

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Artabanus III

Eshaqvan, Rock Relief (cast at Taq-e Bostan)

Tepe Sialk, Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

Fayaz Tepe, Wall painting of Alexander the Great

Zurmala stupa, Entrance

Parthian bowl

Afrosiab, Big jar

Phraates II

Iranian Azerbaijan, Iron Age Arrowheads

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sagartians

Vologases IV

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arians

Tepe Hesar, View

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Vologases V

Topraq Qala

Old Termez, Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Apadana

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of king Vologases

Artabanus II

Watercourse

Hatra, Model of a small temple

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief III

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Vologases II

Derbent Road

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Kara Tepe, Head

Tepe Godin, Pottery from level III

Hatra, Catapult

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Behistun, Darius' relief, Tritantaechmes

Afrosiab, Hellenistic deity

A mounted archer

Hyrcania, Terraces

Hecatompylos, Hill 1, Clandestine excavation

Tepe Godin, Store rooms

Halchayan, Parthian warrior

Terraces, north of the mountains

Tepe Nush-e Jan, From the east

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Gotarzes I

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

Bactrian coin

Hatra, Relief of the god Nergal

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian

Eshaqvan, Rock Tombs

Head of a Parthian

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Eucratides I of Bactria

Hatra, Relief of two dromedaries

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Yazd, Funeral houses

Snake amulet

Scortaru, Scythian cauldron

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Babylonian map of the western Zagros. A road, a mountain, and a river are indicated.

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Kara Tepe, North, Court

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

Afrosiab, Ditch

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Zagros, Incision (a brook cutting its way through the rocks)

Jiroft, Weight made of chlorite

Kara Tepe, Relief

Arrowheads from Hamadan

Kangavar, Stairs

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Parthian

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

The Zagros, Mountain pass along the road from Hamadan to the west

Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arian

The Silk Road

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Artabanus I

Eucratides II of Bactria

Hecatompylos, Hill 2

Hamadan, Aqueduct

Ahuan, Karwansaray

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Mithradates IV

Axes from Luristan

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian camel

Afrosiab, Christian ossuary

Eucratides I of Bactria

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject slng (OP. Zranka = Drangiana)

Zurmala stupa

Hecatompylos, Hill 3

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Afrosiab, Hellenistic column base

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Demetrius I of Bactria

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Ai Khanum, Map

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Afrosiab, Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject pltiiw3 (OP. Parthava = Parthia)

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Vonones II

Afrosiab, Ruins

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

Afrosiab, Zoroastrian fire altar

Orodes I

Mithradates II

Afrosiab, Late pottery

Parthian mounted archer

Mithradates I the Great

Gabae, Hill

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Susa, Letter from Artabanus II, requesting the appointment of one Hecataeus as treasurer

Kara Tepe, Head

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

The "French trench"

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Susa, Parthian bottle

Vardanes II

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Orodes II

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter on horseback chasing deer