Greater Iran

Hecatompylos, Hill 2

Kangavar, Platform

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Tepe Sialk, Iron ore

Kara Tepe, Relief

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

Afrosiab, Hellenistic column base

Map of Sogdia

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Apadana

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Eucratides I of Bactria

Tepe Godin, Pottery from level III

Artabanus III

Gotarzes II

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

Eburz near Ahuan

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Afrosiab, Figurine of Anahita

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

Vardanes II

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

Vologases IV

Hatra, Statue of an eagle

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

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

Mithradates I the Great

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arian

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Watercourse

Hamadan, Aqueduct

Susa, Parthian jar

Afrosiab, Sogdian helmet

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Ai Khanum, Map

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear

Zagros, Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Koktepa, Mirror

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Topraq Qala

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Hecatompylos, Hill 3

Hatra, Temple of Šamaš

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

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Demetrius I of Bactria

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sagartians

Susa, Parthian bottle

Tepe Godin, Map

Gandj Nameh, Waterfall

Afrosiab, Ditch

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

Artabanus I

Vologases II

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sagartian

Tepe Hesar, View

Kara Tepe, Head

Zurmala stupa, Entrance

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sogdian

Hatra, Relief of the god Nergal

Vologases VI

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

Corbu, Seal ring of king Scyles

Susa, Handle of a Parthian coffin

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Isfahan, Sharestan bridge

Zurmala stupa

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Phraates IV

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Orodes II

Vardanes I

Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Brickwork

Tepe Nush-e Jan, From the east

Tepe Godin, Store rooms

Iron Age ring from Hyrcania/Parthia

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

Isfahan, Atashgah (Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary)

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

Arsaces I

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief IV

Gabae, Hill

Mithradates IV

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian

Hatra, Catapult

Mithradates II

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sakâ tigrakhaudâ

Oxus, FIsherman

Vologases III

Scythian arrowheads

Kara Tepe, Head

Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)

Hecatompylos, Hill 1, Clandestine excavation

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

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

Hamadan, Hellenistic or Parthian lion

Vonones II

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arians

Phraates III

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Hamadan, Bull's head

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

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

Phraataces

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill, Panorama

Sinatruces

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb

Afrosiab, Persian dish

Gotarzes I

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

Afrosiab, Sogdian weapons

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Artabanus IV

Hatra, Model of a small temple

Grey ware from Khurvin

Zurmala stupa, Brickwork

Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Bactrians

Tepe Godin, The deep sounding

Head of a Parthian

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

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

The "French trench"

Eucratides II of Bactria

Orodes I

Behistun, Darius' relief, Phraortes

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Hatra, Relief of two dromedaries

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arachosian

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

Behistun, Darius' relief, Tritantaechmes

Jiroft, Weight made of chlorite

Tepe Sialk, Deep sounding

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief II

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

Tepe Sialk, Northern hill

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arachosians

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Parthian

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Entrance to the fort

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of king Vologases

Eagle-shaped Scythian brooche

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Afrosiab, Ruins

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

Arrowheads from Hamadan

Parthian mounted archer

Kara Tepe, North, Court

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Afrosiab, Ditch

Snake amulet

Tus, Wall (in its present form Seljuk)

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Map of the world of the Scythians

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief III

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

Osroes I

Iranian Azerbaijan, Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Ahuan, Karwansaray

A mounted archer

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Afrosiab, Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Axes from Luristan

Parthian quarter

Hamadan, Terrace wall

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Kara Tepe, Relief

Bactrian coin

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

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Tepe Godin, View from the SE

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

Eshaqvan, Rock tombs, seen from a distance

Afrosiab, Zoroastrian fire altar

Tepe Sialk, Strata

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Kangavar, Portico

Terraces, north of the mountains

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Halchayan, Parthian warrior

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

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

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Gabae, Hill

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Geological layers

Koktepa, Scissors

Gilded disk from the Astrakhan area

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

Afrosiab, Christian ossuary

Parthian musician playing a tanbur

Crossing the Elburz

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Parthians

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Athens, Black-figured dish with a Scythian archer

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Wall of the fort

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby

Afrosiab, Late pottery

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

Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

Afrosiab, Ruins

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

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

Hecatompylos, Sherds on the plain

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence" (1)

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Two Medes

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot (2)

Scortaru, Scythian cauldron

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Afrosiab, Hellenistic deity

The Silk Road

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Kangavar, General view

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Afrosiab, Ruins

Charax

Hamadan, Achaemenid column bases

Kyrgyzstan

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Brickwork inside the fort

Hatra, Decoration with dromedaries

Eucratides I of Bactria

Kangavar, Foundations of a wall

Naqš-e Rustam, Parthian relief of a lion

Zurmala stupa

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Susa, Relief of Artabanus IV

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

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

Yazd, Funeral houses

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk handle

Parthian bowl

Afrosiab, Big jar

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Arachosians

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

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter on horseback chasing deer

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Mountain plain

Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Phraates II

Vonones I

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Chorasmian coin

Iranian Azerbaijan, Iron Age Arrowheads

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb, Relief of a Magian

Hatra, Parthian pottery

Zanjan Rud

Kangavar, Back

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

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

Vologases V

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

Behistun, Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

The Avestan world

Kerman, Mountains

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Hecatompylos, Square building

The river Oxus

Hatra, seen from the air

Kara Tepe, Head

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Sarmatian roundel

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

Kangavar, Stairs

Afrosiab, Deformed skulls

Demetrius I of Bactria

Zurmala stupa

Susa, Small Hellenistic or Parthian portrait

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

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

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

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian camel

Artabanus II

Tapioszentmarton, Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Bowl from Tepe Hesar I

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Tepe Sialk, Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Amulet of Bes from Iran

Zagros, Fertile plain north of Nihavand

Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince

Behistun, Parthian rock reliefs

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Kara Tepe, Relief

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

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Iranian Azerbaijan, Stone weight

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

Zoilus of Bactria

Tepe Sialk, Ziggurat, Summit

Orodes III

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Susa, Oil lamp

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Fayaz Tepe, Disk of the Sun god

Hyrcania, Terraces

Hatra, Statue of a general

Tepe Sialk, Cup from the first millennium

Tiridates I

Balkh, Corinthian capital

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Altar

A mountain valley

Fayaz Tepe, Wall painting of Alexander the Great

Derbent Road

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

Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

Eshaqvan, Rock Tombs