Greater Iran

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

s3htjl (OP. Bâkhtriš = Bactria)

Vonones II

Grey ware from Khurvin

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Bactrians

Tepe Godin, pottery from level III

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

hlw3 (OP. Haraiva = Aria)

Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

Relief of Artabanus IV

Kara Tepe, Head

Afrosiab, Ruins

Hyrcania, terraces

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

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Coin of Artabanus I

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

Mithradates II

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief II

Samarkand, Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Geological layers

Coin of Phraates II

Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles

Kerman, mountains

Axes from Luristan

Orodes II

Two Medes

Osroes I

Tepe Godin, store rooms

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

Ctesiphon, iwan

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Scortaru, Scythian cauldron

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

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

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Phraates III

Afrosiab, Ditch

Dura Europos, Old Citadel

Cup from the first millennium

ch3rs3m' (OP. Uvârazmîy = Chorasmia)

Summit of the ziggurat

Kangavar, back

The Sagartian king Tritantaechmes on the Behistun relief

Tepe Godin, the deep sounding

Yazd, funeral houses

Sharestan Bridge

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Koktepa, Scissors

Scythian archer on an Athenian dish

Along the road from Hamadan to the west

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

The 1999-2004 excavations

Kangavar, stairs

Afrosiab, Ditch

Parthian warrior

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief III

Tiridates I

Amulet of Bes from Iran

Tepe Godin, from the southeast

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

Eburz near Ahuan

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Eucratides II of Bactria

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Hecatompylos, hill 1

The Behistun relief from below

Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler

Zurmala stupa

Zoilus of Bactria

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Strata

A Parthian dignitary

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arians

Ctesiphon, iwan

Bactrian coin, last quarter of the second century BCE

Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Behistun relief from a distance

Zurmala stupa

Scythian arrowheads

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Snake amulet

A Magian, worshipping at a fire altar

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sagartians

Christian ossuary

Sogdian weapons

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

Hecatompylos, square building

Tepe Nush-e Jan, apadana

The Zanjan Rud

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

Central-Asian statuette of a camel

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Gotarzes II

Deep sounding

An Arian

Hecatompylos, hill 2

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

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

Late pottery

Kara Tepe, North, Court

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Oil lamp

Tepe Hesar

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple, altar

Iron Age ring from western Parthia

Tepe Nush-e Jan, wall of the fort

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

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Zurmala stupa

Gabae, hill

Parthian bottle

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Phraates IV

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Northern hill

Eshaqvan from a distance

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Orodes I

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

The 1999-2004 excavations

Afrosiab, Ruins

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

pltiiw3 (OP. Parthava = Parthia)

Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

Ctesiphon, iwan

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Weight from Azerbaijan

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter

Afrosiab, Ruins

A Sagartian

Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)

Zurmala stupa, brickwork

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

Orodes III

The Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Hellenistic figurine of a deity

Parthian bowl

Southern hill

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Sogdian helmet

A bowl from Tepe Hesar I

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

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

Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

Vologases III

Zurmala stupa, entrance

Dasht-e Kavir

Tepe Nush-e Jan, brickwork inside the fort

Sarmatian roundel

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Cadusian arrowheads

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Kara Tepe, Relief

Vologases II

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Mountain plain

A mountain valley

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

Persian dish

Map of the world of the Scythians

Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

The Parthian king Vologases

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

Gabae, hill

Terrace wall

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Kangavar, general view

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

Sinatruces

Head of a Parthian

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

Bactrian camel, Persepolis

Artabanus II

Sogdian

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

A fertile plain north of Nihavand

Mithradates IV

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Terraces, north of the mountains

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Eucratides I of Bactria

Karwansaray near Ahuan

Parthian mounted archer

Tepe Godin, map

Parthian lion

Eucratides I of Bactria

Deformed skulls

Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Pot from the fourth millennium BCE

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

At the banks of the Oxus river

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

A bullshead from Ecbatana

Gotarzes I

Mithradates I the Great

Dura Europos, Temple of the Palmyrene Gods

Crossing the Elburz

Vardanes II

Hecatompylos, hill 1

Charax

Corinthian capital from Balkh

Map of Sogdia

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Sogdian pottery

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

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

A Tatar khan with a pointed cap

The Silk Road

Watercourse

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief IV

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

Arrowheads from Hamadan

skdy (OP. Sugda = Sogdia)

The river Oxus

Phraataces

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Kara Tepe, Relief

Entrance of the excavation

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

Eshaqvan Rock Tombs

Dura Europos, Palmyra Gate

Small Hellenistic or Parthian bust

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Map of Alexander's Return

Handle of a Parthian coffin

Vologases VI

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk_handle

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Vologases IV

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

Kyrgyzstan

The famous iwan of Ctesiphon

A Hellenistic or Parthian lion

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

Artabanus III, coin

Parthian lute player

Sherds on the plain

Eagle-shaped scythian brooche

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

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

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Parthians

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

Iron ore

Parthian rock reliefs

Early first millennium beak pot

Demetrius I of Bactria

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arachosians

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Ai Khanum, map

Derbent Road

Tepe Nush-e Jan, from the east

Kara Tepe, Relief

Dura Europos, Temple of Zeus Theos

The Avestan world

Weight from Jiroft, made of chlorite

Jar from the fourth millennium BCE

Kangavar, summit

Parthian jar

Aquaduct

Demetrius I of Bactria

Vonones I

m'dy (OP. Mâda = Media)

Early first millennium beak pot

slng (OP. Zranka = Drangiana)

Vologases V

Arsaces I

Clandestine excavation at Hill 1

A mounted archer

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Southern hill, panorama

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Koktepa, Mirror

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

Vardanes I

Parthian quarter

Ctesiphon, iwan

A big jar (dolium)

Cup from the fourth millennium

Kangavar, foundations of a wall

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

Hellenistic column base

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

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

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Topraq Qala

Hecatompylos, hill 3

Fayaz Tepe, wall painting of Alexander the Great

Achaemenid column bases

Kara Tepe, Head

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Fayaz Tepe, Sun god

The "French trench"

A Parthian dignitary

Zoroastrian fire altar

The citadel of Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Kangavar, portico

sg?shkš (OP Sâka = Scythians)

The wall of Toos (in its present form Seljuk)

Chorasmian coin

Kara Tepe, Head

Artabanus IV