Greater Iran, of course, is not an existing country. This category is intended for everything related to the area where, in Antiquity, people spoke an Iranian language, except for Persia.
 Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians
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 Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence" (1)
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 Vologases V
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 Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary
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 The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus
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 Zurmala stupa, Entrance
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 Hamadan, Bull's head
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 Vologases IV
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Bactrians
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 Kangavar, General view
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 Hamadan, Sasanian flask
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 Osroes I
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 Afrosiab, Ruins
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 Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject sg?shkš (OP Sâka = Scythians)
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 Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk handle
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 Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates
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 Tepe Godin, The deep sounding
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 Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae
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 Afrosiab, Sogdian helmet
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 Amulet of Bes from Iran
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 Eshaqvan, Rock tombs, seen from a distance
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 Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper
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 Vologases II
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 Arrowheads from Hamadan
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 Tepe Sialk, Strata
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 Ctesiphon, Iwan
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians
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 Hecatompylos, Hill 1
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 Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside
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 Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess
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 Gandj Nameh, Waterfall
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 Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"
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 Hamadan, Aqueduct
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 Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby
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 Vonones I
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 Afrosiab, Christian ossuary
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 A mountain valley
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 Tepe Sialk, Southern hill, Panorama
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 Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp
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 The Elburz from Tepe Hesar
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 Bactrian coin
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 Kara Tepe, Painted pottery
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 Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant
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 Eshaqvan, Rock Tombs
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 Afrosiab, Late pottery
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 Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot (2)
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 Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince
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 Afrosiab, Ruins
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 Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb
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 Afrosiab, Zoroastrian fire altar
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Brickwork
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 Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject pltiiw3 (OP. Parthava = Parthia)
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 Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief
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 Kangavar, Stairs
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 Orodes III
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 Ahuan, Karwansaray
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes
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 Ctesiphon, Iwan
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 Zurmala stupa
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 Iranian Azerbaijan, Disk with a deity with two wild animals
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 Fayaz Tepe, Wall painting of Alexander the Great
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 Isfahan, Sharestan bridge
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 Gotarzes I
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 Artabanus II
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 Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign
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 Oxus, FIsherman
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 Parthian musician playing a tanbur
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 Kara Tepe, North, General view
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 The Avestan world
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 The ruins from Ai Khanum
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 Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II
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 Modern painting of Zarathustra
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian camel
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 Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist
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 Tepe Sialk, Southern hill
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 Hatra, Parthian pottery
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 Tepe Sialk, Pot from the fourth millennium BCE, decorated with an ibex
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 Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject ch3rs3m' (OP. Uvârazmîy = Chorasmia)
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 Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory
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 Chorasmian coin
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 A Magian (Oxus Treasure)
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 Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age
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 Parthian mounted archer
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 Behistun, Darius' relief, Frâda (center) and Skunkha (right)
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 Afrosiab, Ditch
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 Afrosiab, Ditch
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 Koktepa, Scissors
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae
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 Scortaru, Scythian cauldron
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 Zagros, Fertile plain north of Nihavand
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 Vologases III
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 The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent
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 Axe in the shape of a two-headed demon, mastering a boar and a dragon (Early Bronze Age)
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 Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing
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 Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases
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 Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief
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 Crossing the Elburz
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, Wall of the fort
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 Hatra, Model of a small temple
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 Hatra, Decoration with dromedaries
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 Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha
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 Fayaz Tepe, Stupa
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 Vonones II
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 Ai Khanum, Map
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 Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders
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 Phraates III
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 Eucratides I of Bactria
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 Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat
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 Iron Age ring from Hyrcania/Parthia
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 Eagle-shaped Scythian brooche
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 Hatra, Catapult
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 Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sagartians
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 Tepe Godin, View from the SE
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 Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria
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 Eucratides I of Bactria
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 Tepe Godin, Store rooms
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 Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha
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 The Zagros, Mountain pass along the road from Hamadan to the west
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 Artabanus IV
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 Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall
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 Susa, Small Hellenistic or Parthian portrait
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 Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base
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 Grey ware from Khurvin
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 Koktepa, Mirror
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Parthian
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 Gabae, Hill
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 Kara Tepe, Relief
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 Tus, Wall (in its present form Seljuk)
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 Hecatompylos, Hill 1
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 Derbent Road
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 Iranian Azerbaijan, Iron Age Arrowheads
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 Gotarzes II
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 Yazd, Funeral houses
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 Tepe Hesar, Figurine
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 Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject slng (OP. Zranka = Drangiana)
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 Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb
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 Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject hlw3 (OP. Haraiva = Aria)
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 Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells
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 Susa, Parthian bottle
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 Phraataces
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 Kyrgyzstan
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 Hecatompylos, Hill 2
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 Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model
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 Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads
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 Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians
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 Mithradates I the Great
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 Phraates IV
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes
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 Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior
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 Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace
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 Ctesiphon, Iwan
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 Ahuan, general view of the edge of the Dasht-e Kavir
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 Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief
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 Kara Tepe, North, Court
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 Susa, Handle of a Parthian coffin
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Parthians
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 Hamadan, Terrace wall
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 Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles
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 Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"
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 Hecatompylos, Hill 3
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 Hatra, Relief of two dromedaries
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 Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates
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 Eshaqvan, Rock Relief (cast at Taq-e Bostan)
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 Demetrius I of Bactria
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 Susa, Letter from Artabanus II, requesting the appointment of one Hecataeus as treasurer
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 Hatra, Statue of Shahiro (?), the morning star
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 Tepe Godin, Pottery from level III
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 Kangavar, Portico
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 Houses in Kampyr Tepe
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 Old Termez, Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles
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 Sinatruces
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 Afrosiab, Ruins
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 Parthian bowl
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 Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription
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 Kara Tepe, South, Two caves
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 Tepe Sialk, Deep sounding
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arachosian
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 Kangavar, Foundations of a wall
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 Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm
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 Parthian quarter
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 Eucratides II of Bactria
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arachosians
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 Zurmala stupa
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 Kara Tepe, Relief
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 Head of a Parthian
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 Hecatompylos, Hill 1, Clandestine excavation
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 Zoilus of Bactria
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 A Magian, worshipping at a fire altar (seal impression)
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 Hatra, Statue of a general
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 Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall
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 Naqš-e Rustam, Parthian relief of a lion
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, Entrance to the fort
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 Artabanus III
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 Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle
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 Kara Tepe, West, Caves
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 Tapioszentmarton, Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag
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 Susa, Parthian jar
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 Kara Tepe, Head
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 Gabae, Hill
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 Monstrous male figure with a water vessel (Early Bronze Age)
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Altar
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 Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear
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 Behistun Rock, seen from the east
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 Susa, Oil lamp
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 Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb, Relief of a Magian
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 Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers
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 Iranian Azerbaijan, Stone weight
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 Tepe Sialk, Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE
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 The "French trench"
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 Fayaz Tepe, Disk of the Sun god
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 Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Arachosians
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 The Silk Road
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sagartian
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 Susa, Relief of Artabanus IV
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 Zanjan Rud
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 Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae
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 Bowl from Tepe Hesar I
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 Tepe Sialk, Northern hill
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians
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 The Caspian Sea at Ramsar
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 Arsaces I
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 Afrosiab, Hellenistic pilgrim flask
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort
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 A mounted archer
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 The Zagros west of Qazvin
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 The river Oxus
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, Brickwork inside the fort
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 Fayaz Tepe, Stupa
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 Vardanes II
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 Kara Tepe, Head
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, Apadana
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 Topraq Qala
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 Vologases VI
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 Axes from Luristan
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 Kampyr Tepe, Plain
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 Ctesiphon, Iwan
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 Geological layers
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 Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations
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 Afrosiab, Persian dish
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 Afrosiab, Big jar
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 Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary
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 Hamadan, Achaemenid column bases
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 Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot
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 Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief III
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 Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron
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 Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave
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 Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton
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 Tepe Hesar, View
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 Halchayan, Parthian warrior
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 Zagros, Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)
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 Vardanes I
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 Mithradates II
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 Hecatompylos, Square building
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 Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)
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 Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot
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 Afrosiab, Hellenistic deity
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 Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject s3htjl (OP. Bâkhtriš = Bactria)
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 Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"
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 Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp
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 Phraates II
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 Hatra, Statue of an eagle
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 Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton
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 Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha
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 Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief IV
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 Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery
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 Babylonian map of the western Zagros. A road, a mountain, and a river are indicated.
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 Afrosiab, Deformed skulls
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 Fayaz Tepe, Necklace
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 Afrosiab, Figurine of Anahita
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 Head of a bronze statue of a Parthian prince, found at Shami, Khuzestan
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 Hatra, Relief of the god Nergal
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 Tus, Statue of Firdausi
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 Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial
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 Tepe sialk, Jar from the fourth millennium BCE, decorated with ibexes
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 Afrosiab, Hellenistic column base
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 Kangavar, Platform
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 Tepe Sialk, Cup from the fourth millennium decorated with a human figure
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 Tiridates I
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 Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court
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 Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap
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 Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag
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 Kara Tepe, Relief
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 Hatra, seen from the air
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 Hyrcania, Terraces
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 Watercourse
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, From the east
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 Behistun, Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers
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 Corbu, Seal ring of king Scyles
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Two Medes
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 Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad
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 Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)
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 Tepe Sialk, Ziggurat, Summit
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 Diodotus I of Bactria, coin
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 Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)
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 Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"
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 Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler
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 Jiroft, Weight made of chlorite
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian
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 Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel
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 Tepe Sialk, Cup from the first millennium
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 Eburz near Ahuan
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 Artabanus I
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 Hamadan, Hellenistic or Parthian lion
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 Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief II
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 Kangavar, Back
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 Tepe Sialk, Iron ore
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 Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sakâ tigrakhaudâ
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 Tepe Godin, Map
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 Zagros, Incision (a brook cutting its way through the rocks)
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 Charax
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 Isfahan, Zayandeh Rud (and the Si-o-se Bridge)
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 Zurmala stupa
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 Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject skdy (OP. Sugda = Sogdia)
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 Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II
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 Kerman, Mountains
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 Isfahan, Atashgah (Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary)
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 Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations
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 Orodes II
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 Hatra, Relief of an eagle, a military standard, and the Sun
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 Scythian arrowheads
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arians
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sogdian
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 Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject m'dy (OP. Mâda = Media)
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 Map of Sogdia
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 Afrosiab, Sogdian weapons
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 Kampyr Tepe, Houses
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 Fayaz Tepe, Fountain
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 Snake amulet
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 Behistun, Darius' relief, Tritantaechmes
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 Kara Tepe, Head
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 Balkh, Corinthian capital
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 Zurmala stupa, Brickwork
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 Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery
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 Terraces, north of the mountains
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 Orodes I
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 Ctesiphon, Iwan
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 Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace
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 Hatra, Temple of Šamaš
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 Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane
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 Demetrius I of Bactria
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 Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arian
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 Athens, Black-figured dish with a Scythian archer
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 Sarmatian roundel
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 Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food
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 Gilded disk from the Astrakhan area
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 Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of king Vologases
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 Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)
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 Varahsha, Relief of a hunter on horseback chasing deer
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 Behistun, Darius' relief, Phraortes
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 Mountain plain
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 Map of the world of the Scythians
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 Hecatompylos, Sherds on the plain
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 Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief, drawing
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 Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary
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 Mithradates IV
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 Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"
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 Behistun, Parthian rock reliefs
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