Greater Iran

Sarmatian roundel

Hecatompylos, hill 2

Hyrcania, terraces

Kangavar, stairs

Scythian archer on an Athenian dish

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

A Hellenistic or Parthian lion

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Bactrians

Parthian mounted archer

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Early first millennium beak pot

Oil lamp

Tepe Nush-e Jan, from the east

Dasht-e Kavir

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

Kara Tepe, Relief

Weight from Jiroft, made of chlorite

Eucratides I of Bactria

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Kara Tepe, Relief

Fayaz Tepe, Sun god

An Arian

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Ai Khanum, map

Snake amulet

Axes from Luristan

Jar from the fourth millennium BCE

Behistun relief from a distance

A big jar (dolium)

Head of a Parthian

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

Bactrian coin, last quarter of the second century BCE

Orodes III

Strata

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief III

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Hecatompylos, square building

Relief of Artabanus IV

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

Kerman, mountains

Hecatompylos, hill 1

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Parthian rock reliefs

Zurmala stupa, brickwork

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

Vologases VI

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Persian dish

Handle of a Parthian coffin

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

Gotarzes II

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

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

Samarkand, Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Sogdian

Bactrian camel, Persepolis

Eagle-shaped scythian brooche

Tepe Godin, store rooms

Dura Europos, Temple of the Palmyrene Gods

Parthian lute player

Afrosiab, Ruins

Afrosiab, Ruins

Ctesiphon, iwan

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

The Parthian king Vologases

Afrosiab, Ditch

Achaemenid column bases

Sogdian weapons

Tepe Godin, map

Vologases IV

Eucratides II of Bactria

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Sharestan Bridge

Fayaz Tepe, wall painting of Alexander the Great

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

Ctesiphon, iwan

hlw3 (OP. Haraiva = Aria)

The Sagartian king Tritantaechmes on the Behistun relief

Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Artabanus IV

Southern hill

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

Orodes II

A Sagartian

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Parthians

Demetrius I of Bactria

Ctesiphon, iwan

Summit of the ziggurat

Vardanes II

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

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

The Silk Road

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Vologases V

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

ch3rs3m' (OP. Uvârazmîy = Chorasmia)

Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

Kangavar, summit

Southern hill, panorama

Gabae, hill

Parthian lion

Parthian warrior

Dura Europos, Palmyra Gate

Geological layers

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

Coin of Phraates II

Kara Tepe, North, Court

The Zanjan Rud

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Terrace wall

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Mountain plain

Afrosiab, Ruins

Grey ware from Khurvin

Coin of Artabanus I

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Zurmala stupa

Parthian bowl

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

Northern hill

Artabanus III, coin

Koktepa, Scissors

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Tepe Nush-e Jan, brickwork inside the fort

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Sinatruces

Hellenistic column base

Map of the world of the Scythians

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

Northwestern "tower of silence"

The 1999-2004 excavations

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

The 1999-2004 excavations

Central-Asian statuette of a camel

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

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

Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Gabae, hill

Weight from Azerbaijan

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

Deformed skulls

Sherds on the plain

Kara Tepe, Relief

Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

A bullshead from Ecbatana

Phraates IV

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

A Parthian dignitary

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter

skdy (OP. Sugda = Sogdia)

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Koktepa, Mirror

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

Eucratides I of Bactria

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

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

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sagartians

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Cadusian arrowheads

The citadel of Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Kara Tepe, Head

Gotarzes I

A Parthian dignitary

Map of Alexander's Return

Scythian arrowheads

Iron Age ring from western Parthia

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Pot from the fourth millennium BCE

Early first millennium beak pot

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Christian ossuary

slng (OP. Zranka = Drangiana)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

Phraataces

Sogdian helmet

The famous iwan of Ctesiphon

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Vardanes I

Late pottery

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Cup from the fourth millennium

Watercourse

A mounted archer

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Eburz near Ahuan

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

Vologases II

Tepe Godin, pottery from level III

Derbent Road

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Small Hellenistic or Parthian bust

Vonones II

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Vologases III

Kangavar, back

Iron ore

Zurmala stupa, entrance

Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles

Hecatompylos, hill 1

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple, altar

Entrance of the excavation

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

At the banks of the Oxus river

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Zoilus of Bactria

Arrowheads from Hamadan

The "French trench"

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arians

Corinthian capital from Balkh

Cup from the first millennium

Zurmala stupa

A mountain valley

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

A Tatar khan with a pointed cap

Two Medes

Artabanus II

The Behistun relief from below

Hecatompylos, hill 3

Tepe Nush-e Jan, apadana

Charax

Crossing the Elburz

Ctesiphon, iwan

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Kangavar, portico

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

pltiiw3 (OP. Parthava = Parthia)

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk_handle

Aquaduct

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Parthian bottle

Eshaqvan Rock Tombs

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

Demetrius I of Bactria

Zurmala stupa

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Parthian quarter

Tepe Hesar

Tepe Godin, the deep sounding

Chorasmian coin

Tepe Nush-e Jan, wall of the fort

Clandestine excavation at Hill 1

Parthian jar

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary

m'dy (OP. Mâda = Media)

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Map of Sogdia

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

The river Oxus

Zoroastrian fire altar

Deep sounding

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Arsaces I

Kangavar, general view

Amulet of Bes from Iran

A Magian, worshipping at a fire altar

Vonones I

Mithradates II

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

Orodes I

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

Along the road from Hamadan to the west

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief II

A fertile plain north of Nihavand

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Yazd, funeral houses

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Tiridates I

Tepe Godin, from the southeast

The Avestan world

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Phraates III

sg?shkš (OP Sâka = Scythians)

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arachosians

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Topraq Qala

Sogdian pottery

s3htjl (OP. Bâkhtriš = Bactria)

Osroes I

Dura Europos, Old Citadel

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Kangavar, foundations of a wall

A bowl from Tepe Hesar I

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief IV

Kara Tepe, Head

Afrosiab, Ditch

The Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Mithradates IV

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

Mithradates I the Great

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Terraces, north of the mountains

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Eshaqvan from a distance

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Hellenistic figurine of a deity

Dura Europos, Temple of Zeus Theos

Karwansaray near Ahuan

Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Kara Tepe, Head

The wall of Toos (in its present form Seljuk)

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Kyrgyzstan