Greater Iran

Afrosiab, Ruins

Kara Tepe, Relief

Topraq Qala

Parthian quarter

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Kara Tepe, Relief

Snake amulet

Tepe Godin, from the southeast

skdy (OP. Sugda = Sogdia)

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

Hecatompylos, square building

Deformed skulls

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Axes from Luristan

The Silk Road

Artabanus IV

Sarmatian roundel

Orodes I

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Relief of Artabanus IV

The 1999-2004 excavations

Zurmala stupa, brickwork

The Zayandeh Rud and Isfahan's famous Si-o-se Bridge

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arians

Map of the world of the Scythians

Corinthian capital from Balkh

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

Parthian lute player

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

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

Orodes III

Sogdian weapons

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple, altar

Gotarzes II

Parthian relief of Mithridates II, drawing

Mountain plain

Sogdian helmet

Parthian warrior

Mithradates II

Zurmala stupa

Northwestern "tower of silence"

A fertile plain north of Nihavand

Zoroastrian fire altar

Orodes II

An Arachosian. Relief from the East Stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Bactrian camel, Persepolis

Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Jar from the fourth millennium BCE

Eshaqvan from a distance

Southern hill, panorama

Head of a Parthian

A mounted archer

A Parthian dignitary

A big jar (dolium)

A Parthian dignitary

Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Vologases V

Dasht-e Kavir

The relief at Eshaqvand (cast at Taq-e Bostan)

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Tepe Nush-e Jan, from the east

Mithradates I the Great

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

Kara Tepe, Head

The wall of Toos (in its present form Seljuk)

ch3rs3m' (OP. Uvârazmîy = Chorasmia)

Afrosiab, Ruins

Zurmala stupa, entrance

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Afrosiab, Ditch

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

slng (OP. Zranka = Drangiana)

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

Tepe Godin, store rooms

Tepe Godin, the deep sounding

Phraataces

Handle of a Parthian coffin

Kyrgyzstan

Persian dish

Phraates IV

Small Hellenistic or Parthian bust

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

Sakâ tigrakhaudâ. Relief from the eastern stairs of the Apadana at Persepolis.

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Mithradates IV

s3htjl (OP. Bâkhtriš = Bactria)

Kangavar, foundations of a wall

Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Kara Tepe, Head

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

Sogdian pottery

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Bactrians

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Hyrcania, terraces

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Derbent Road

Chorasmian coin

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter

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

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

The Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Eagle-shaped scythian brooche

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Arsaces I

An incision (a brook cutting its way through the rocks)

Kara Tepe, Relief

Vonones I

Grey ware from Khurvin

Osroes I

Sherds on the plain

Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Tepe Hesar

A bullshead from Ecbatana

Artabanus III, coin

Karwansaray near Ahuan

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Parthians

Dura Europos, Old Citadel

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sagartians

Kara Tepe, North, Court

sg?shkš (OP Sâka = Scythians)

Afrosiab, Ruins

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

Ctesiphon, iwan

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Hellenistic column base

Geological layers

The Sagartian king Tritantaechmes on the Behistun relief

Sharestan Bridge

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

The Zanjan Rud

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Vologases III

Clandestine excavation at Hill 1

Map of Alexander's Return

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

The river Oxus

Hecatompylos, hill 2

A Bactrian. Relief from the eastern stairs of the Apadana at Persepolis.

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Cup from the fourth millennium

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

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Entrance of the excavation

Oil lamp

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Ctesiphon, iwan

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Hecatompylos, hill 1

Dura Europos, Temple of the Palmyrene Gods

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Ai Khanum, map

Bactrian coin, last quarter of the second century BCE

The statue of Firdausi (a copy can be seen in the Villa Borghese park in Rome)

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

The citadel of Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Terrace wall

The "French trench"

Iron Age ring from western Parthia

Koktepa, Scissors

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief III

Deep sounding

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

Afrosiab, Ditch

At the banks of the Oxus river

Along the road from Hamadan to the west

Tepe Godin, pottery from level III

Aquaduct

Coin of Phraates II

Parthian bottle

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

Charax

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

A Magian, worshipping at a fire altar

Map of Sogdia

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Weight from Jiroft, made of chlorite

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Hecatompylos, hill 1

Phraates III

Fayaz Tepe, Sun god

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

hlw3 (OP. Haraiva = Aria)

Parthian lion

Northern hill

Crossing the Elburz

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

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

Gotarzes I

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Artabanus II

Vologases IV

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Vardanes II

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

A Hellenistic or Parthian lion

Yazd, funeral houses

Summit of the ziggurat

Vologases II

Zurmala stupa

Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary

Dura Europos, Palmyra Gate

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

Arrowheads from Hamadan

Zurmala stupa

Koktepa, Mirror

Kangavar, general view

Southeastern "tower of silence"

The Behistun relief from below

m'dy (OP. Mâda = Media)

Kangavar, summit

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Cadusian arrowheads

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

Christian ossuary

Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles

Vonones II

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Parthian relief of Gotarzes II

A mountain valley

Fayaz Tepe, wall painting of Alexander the Great

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

The Parthian king Vologases

Hellenistic figurine of a deity

Strata

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Kerman, mountains

Tepe Nush-e Jan, wall of the fort

Parthian jar

A Parthian. Relief from the East Stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis

A bowl from Tepe Hesar I

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Vologases VI

Southeastern "tower of silence"

The famous iwan of Ctesiphon

A Sagartian

The 1999-2004 excavations

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Sinatruces

pltiiw3 (OP. Parthava = Parthia)

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

Gabae, hill

Two Medes

Scythian arrowheads

Ctesiphon, iwan

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

Parthian rock reliefs

Tiridates I

Watercourse

Sogdian

Kangavar, stairs

Parthian relief of Mithridates II

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arachosians

Cup from the first millennium

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief IV

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Kara Tepe, Head

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Parthian bowl

Gabae, hill

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Eburz near Ahuan

Coin of Artabanus I

Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief II

An Arian

Kangavar, back

Southern hill

Samarkand, Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Pot from the fourth millennium BCE

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

Hecatompylos, hill 3

Behistun relief from a distance

Eshaqvan Rock Tombs

Central-Asian statuette of a camel

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

Iron ore

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Tepe Godin, map

Tepe Nush-e Jan, brickwork inside the fort

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Terraces, north of the mountains

Weight from Azerbaijan

Achaemenid column bases

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

Scythian archer on an Athenian dish

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

Early first millennium beak pot

Early first millennium beak pot

A Tatar khan with a pointed cap

Tepe Nush-e Jan, apadana

Late pottery

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Ctesiphon, iwan

Kangavar, portico

Dura Europos, Temple of Zeus Theos

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

The Avestan world