Greater Iran

Artabanus II

The 1999-2004 excavations

hlw3 (OP. Haraiva = Aria)

Parthian warrior

Tepe Hesar

Southern hill, panorama

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Axes from Luristan

A mounted archer

Central-Asian statuette of a camel

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Northwestern "tower of silence"

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Hellenistic column base

The river Oxus

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Iron ore

Crossing the Elburz

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Terraces, north of the mountains

A bullshead from Ecbatana

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Arrowheads from Hamadan

Eucratides II of Bactria

ch3rs3m' (OP. Uvârazmîy = Chorasmia)

Handle of a Parthian coffin

Oil lamp

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

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief IV

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

The Parthian king Vologases

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Sarmatian roundel

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

Southern hill

Kyrgyzstan

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Bactrians

Kangavar, general view

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

Eucratides I of Bactria

Behistun relief from a distance

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Grey ware from Khurvin

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

A Hellenistic or Parthian lion

The Zanjan Rud

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

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

Artabanus IV

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

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

A Tatar khan with a pointed cap

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Afrosiab, Ditch

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Demetrius I of Bactria

Fayaz Tepe, Sun god

Phraates III

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Coin of Artabanus I

Phraataces

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter

Clandestine excavation at Hill 1

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Sogdian pottery

Parthian bottle

Head of a Parthian

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Dura Europos, Temple of Zeus Theos

Charax

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

A Parthian dignitary

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

Dura Europos, Palmyra Gate

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

A big jar (dolium)

Kangavar, back

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Ctesiphon, iwan

Strata

Tepe Godin, pottery from level III

Kara Tepe, Head

A bowl from Tepe Hesar I

Zoilus of Bactria

Vonones I

Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles

Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Samarkand, Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

Tepe Godin, the deep sounding

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Kangavar, foundations of a wall

Zoroastrian fire altar

Pot from the fourth millennium BCE

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Amulet of Bes from Iran

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk_handle

Kara Tepe, Relief

Afrosiab, Ruins

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

Zurmala stupa

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

The Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Sogdian helmet

Early first millennium beak pot

Hecatompylos, hill 3

Demetrius I of Bactria

Gotarzes I

Ctesiphon, iwan

Zurmala stupa, brickwork

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

Dasht-e Kavir

Yazd, funeral houses

Coin of Phraates II

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

Relief of Artabanus IV

Tepe Nush-e Jan, from the east

Artabanus III, coin

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Northern hill

Jar from the fourth millennium BCE

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

Watercourse

Mountain plain

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Hecatompylos, hill 1

Cadusian arrowheads

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

Kara Tepe, North, Court

Tepe Nush-e Jan, apadana

Kangavar, summit

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Along the road from Hamadan to the west

Map of the world of the Scythians

Vologases III

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Afrosiab, Ditch

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Orodes III

Sogdian

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

Deep sounding

Entrance of the excavation

Corinthian capital from Balkh

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

Zurmala stupa

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Tepe Godin, map

Mithradates IV

Scythian archer on an Athenian dish

Gabae, hill

Parthian rock reliefs

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

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

An Arian

Kerman, mountains

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Map of Sogdia

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

Osroes I

s3htjl (OP. Bâkhtriš = Bactria)

Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief II

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Vologases IV

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

Parthian jar

Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Cup from the fourth millennium

Eburz near Ahuan

The famous iwan of Ctesiphon

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

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

sg?shkš (OP Sâka = Scythians)

slng (OP. Zranka = Drangiana)

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

At the banks of the Oxus river

Tepe Nush-e Jan, wall of the fort

Weight from Jiroft, made of chlorite

Parthian quarter

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Karwansaray near Ahuan

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

Bactrian coin, last quarter of the second century BCE

Ctesiphon, iwan

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

Parthian mounted archer

Tepe Godin, store rooms

Bactrian camel, Persepolis

skdy (OP. Sugda = Sogdia)

Late pottery

Sogdian weapons

Vonones II

Dura Europos, Old Citadel

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Mithradates I the Great

Vardanes II

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

A fertile plain north of Nihavand

Hecatompylos, square building

Hecatompylos, hill 1

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Snake amulet

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Dura Europos, Temple of the Palmyrene Gods

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Aquaduct

Eucratides I of Bactria

Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary

Parthian lute player

Koktepa, Mirror

pltiiw3 (OP. Parthava = Parthia)

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

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

The Sagartian king Tritantaechmes on the Behistun relief

Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Vardanes I

Topraq Qala

Sherds on the plain

Persian dish

Koktepa, Scissors

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Parthians

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Weight from Azerbaijan

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

A Magian, worshipping at a fire altar

Iron Age ring from western Parthia

Kangavar, stairs

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief III

A Parthian dignitary

Kara Tepe, Relief

m'dy (OP. Mâda = Media)

Zurmala stupa

Vologases VI

Fayaz Tepe, wall painting of Alexander the Great

Eshaqvan Rock Tombs

Early first millennium beak pot

Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Zurmala stupa, entrance

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Parthian lion

Vologases V

The "French trench"

Terrace wall

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Hellenistic figurine of a deity

Vologases II

Kara Tepe, Relief

Kangavar, portico

A mountain valley

Summit of the ziggurat

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Kara Tepe, Head

The Avestan world

Parthian bowl

The wall of Toos (in its present form Seljuk)

Map of Alexander's Return

Achaemenid column bases

Sharestan Bridge

Small Hellenistic or Parthian bust

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arachosians

The 1999-2004 excavations

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple, altar

Mithradates II

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Sinatruces

Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Arsaces I

Tiridates I

Afrosiab, Ruins

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Derbent Road

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Tepe Nush-e Jan, brickwork inside the fort

Orodes II

Phraates IV

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sagartians

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

Deformed skulls

Eagle-shaped scythian brooche

Gotarzes II

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

The Silk Road

Two Medes

Eshaqvan from a distance

Chorasmian coin

Scythian arrowheads

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Gabae, hill

Orodes I

Kara Tepe, Head

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arians

Hyrcania, terraces

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Ctesiphon, iwan

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

Christian ossuary

The citadel of Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

A Sagartian

Southeastern "tower of silence"

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

Cup from the first millennium

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

Tepe Godin, from the southeast

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Geological layers

The Behistun relief from below

Afrosiab, Ruins

Hecatompylos, hill 2

Ai Khanum, map