Greater Iran

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Behistun, Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

Tepe Godin, Map

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Demetrius I of Bactria

Hecatompylos, Hill 3

Crossing the Elburz

Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Parthian

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Jiroft, Weight made of chlorite

Sarmatian roundel

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Hatra, Decoration with dromedaries

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

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arian

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Gotarzes I

Hamadan, Terrace wall

Kangavar, Platform

Gabae, Hill

Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby

Afrosiab, Ditch

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest

Behistun, Darius' relief, Tritantaechmes

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Brickwork

Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Behistun, Darius' relief, Frâda (center) and Skunkha (right)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject s3htjl (OP. Bâkhtriš = Bactria)

Iranian Azerbaijan, Iron Age Arrowheads

Eucratides II of Bactria

Koktepa, Scissors

Mithradates IV

Afrosiab, Late pottery

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject hlw3 (OP. Haraiva = Aria)

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Eburz near Ahuan

Axes from Luristan

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief IV

Hatra, Statue of an eagle

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief III

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian camel

Iranian Azerbaijan, Stone weight

Phraates II

Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler

Kerman, Mountains

Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Bactrian coin

Afrosiab, Sogdian weapons

The Avestan world

Gandj Nameh, Waterfall

Tepe Sialk, Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Vologases II

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian

Hecatompylos, Hill 2

Kara Tepe, Head

Eshaqvan, Rock tombs, seen from a distance

Susa, Relief of Artabanus IV

Sinatruces

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Scythian arrowheads

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Afrosiab, Ditch

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Kangavar, Foundations of a wall

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Arachosians

Mithradates I the Great

Corbu, Seal ring of king Scyles

Topraq Qala

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Parthians

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Hatra, Catapult

Ctesiphon, Iwan

A Magian, worshipping at a fire altar (seal impression)

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Afrosiab, Ruins

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Tepe Godin, Pottery from level III

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Afrosiab, Figurine of Anahita

Parthian mounted archer

Afrosiab, Ruins

Vardanes II

Hecatompylos, Hill 1, Clandestine excavation

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Hatra, seen from the air

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill, Panorama

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Zanjan Rud

Fayaz Tepe, Wall painting of Alexander the Great

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Brickwork inside the fort

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Head of a Parthian

Kangavar, General view

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

Terraces, north of the mountains

Tepe Sialk, Strata

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Kangavar, Back

Afrosiab, Hellenistic deity

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

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

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Kara Tepe, Relief

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

Isfahan, Atashgah (Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary)

Zurmala stupa

Kara Tepe, Relief

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

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

Afrosiab, Hellenistic pilgrim flask

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

A mountain valley

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Entrance to the fort

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot (2)

Hatra, Temple of Šamaš

Phraates IV

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Kyrgyzstan

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject skdy (OP. Sugda = Sogdia)

Hatra, Relief of the god Nergal

Zagros, Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Watercourse

Bowl from Tepe Hesar I

Vardanes I

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Gilded disk from the Astrakhan area

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Ahuan, Karwansaray

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arians

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

The "French trench"

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Hamadan, Aqueduct

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence" (1)

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb

Hatra, Relief of two dromedaries

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill

Kara Tepe, North, Court

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

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

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Bactrians

Iranian Azerbaijan, Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Vonones I

Athens, Black-figured dish with a Scythian archer

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief II

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Amulet of Bes from Iran

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Two Medes

Isfahan, Sharestan bridge

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Halchayan, Parthian warrior

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arachosian

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Naqš-e Rustam, Parthian relief of a lion

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb, Relief of a Magian

Vonones II

A mounted archer

Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince

Zurmala stupa, Entrance

Tiridates I

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Gotarzes II

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

Afrosiab, Big jar

Balkh, Corinthian capital

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Eucratides I of Bactria

Afrosiab, Hellenistic column base

Eucratides I of Bactria

Tepe Godin, The deep sounding

Zagros, Fertile plain north of Nihavand

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot

Parthian musician playing a tanbur

Hecatompylos, Sherds on the plain

Ai Khanum, Map

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Artabanus II

Tepe Nush-e Jan, From the east

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Charax

Grey ware from Khurvin

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Kara Tepe, Head

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

Phraataces

Afrosiab, Deformed skulls

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Eshaqvan, Rock Tombs

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Tus, Wall (in its present form Seljuk)

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sakâ tigrakhaudâ

Behistun, Darius' relief, Phraortes

Head of a bronze statue of a Parthian prince, found at Shami, Khuzestan

Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Tepe Sialk, Pot from the fourth millennium BCE, decorated with an ibex

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

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

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Tepe Sialk, Northern hill

Afrosiab, Christian ossuary

The Silk Road

Vologases III

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sagartians

Parthian bowl

Artabanus I

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sogdian

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Apadana

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Yazd, Funeral houses

Behistun, Parthian rock reliefs

Tapioszentmarton, Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of king Vologases

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

Hatra, Model of a small temple

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

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

Orodes I

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Vologases V

Afrosiab, Ruins

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

Susa, Parthian bottle

Afrosiab, Sogdian helmet

Mountain plain

Afrosiab, Zoroastrian fire altar

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

Hamadan, Hellenistic or Parthian lion

Scortaru, Scythian cauldron

Monstrous male figure with a water vessel (Early Bronze Age)

Tepe Sialk, Ziggurat, Summit

Demetrius I of Bactria

Arrowheads from Hamadan

Hamadan, Achaemenid column bases

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Wall of the fort

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Hecatompylos, Square building

Map of Sogdia

Tepe Sialk, Deep sounding

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

Chorasmian coin

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk handle

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

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

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter on horseback chasing deer

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

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

Hyrcania, Terraces

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

Kangavar, Portico

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Tepe Sialk, Iron ore

Mithradates II

Orodes III

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Vologases VI

Hatra, Parthian pottery

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

The river Oxus

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Susa, Handle of a Parthian coffin

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

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject ch3rs3m' (OP. Uvârazmîy = Chorasmia)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arachosians

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Susa, Parthian jar

Susa, Oil lamp

Kara Tepe, Relief

Oxus, FIsherman

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

Arsaces I

Vologases IV

Zoilus of Bactria

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

Zurmala stupa

Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess

Koktepa, Mirror

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

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Tepe Hesar, View

Artabanus III

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

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Snake amulet

Eagle-shaped Scythian brooche

Orodes II

Derbent Road

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Osroes I

Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

Kangavar, Stairs

Tepe Godin, View from the SE

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Gabae, Hill

Parthian quarter

Geological layers

Zurmala stupa, Brickwork

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Altar

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Fayaz Tepe, Disk of the Sun god

Iron Age ring from Hyrcania/Parthia

Hatra, Statue of a general

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

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

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

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sagartian

Phraates III

Hamadan, Bull's head

Kara Tepe, Head

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Tepe Godin, Store rooms

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Susa, Small Hellenistic or Parthian portrait

Zurmala stupa

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

Map of the world of the Scythians

Afrosiab, Persian dish

Tepe Sialk, Cup from the first millennium

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Artabanus IV