Greater Iran

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of king Vologases

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

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

Afrosiab, Figurine of Anahita

Tepe Nush-e Jan, From the east

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Brickwork

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Parthian bowl

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

Tepe Sialk, Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Derbent Road

Gotarzes II

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Altar

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

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

Kangavar, Portico

Demetrius I of Bactria

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Gilded disk from the Astrakhan area

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arachosian

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence" (1)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian

Vologases IV

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject slng (OP. Zranka = Drangiana)

Vardanes I

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject s3htjl (OP. Bâkhtriš = Bactria)

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Ai Khanum, Map

Naqš-e Rustam, Parthian relief of a lion

The Silk Road

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Kyrgyzstan

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Arachosians

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Eshaqvan, Rock Relief (cast at Taq-e Bostan)

Tepe Godin, Map

Zoilus of Bactria

Yazd, Funeral houses

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot (2)

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Charax

Fayaz Tepe, Disk of the Sun god

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief II

Hatra, Statue of Shahiro (?), the morning star

Phraates III

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

Ahuan, Karwansaray

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

Kangavar, General view

The river Oxus

Hatra, Model of a small temple

Mithradates II

Behistun, Parthian rock reliefs

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Mithradates IV

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian camel

Halchayan, Parthian warrior

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Mountain plain

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Hamadan, Terrace wall

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject pltiiw3 (OP. Parthava = Parthia)

Map of Sogdia

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

Orodes I

Tepe sialk, Jar from the fourth millennium BCE, decorated with ibexes

Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Brickwork inside the fort

Oxus, FIsherman

Parthian quarter

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Eucratides I of Bactria

Afrosiab, Ruins

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sagartians

Vardanes II

Zagros, Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Afrosiab, Sogdian helmet

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sakâ tigrakhaudâ

Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Zurmala stupa

Bactrian coin

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Behistun, Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

Afrosiab, Ditch

Afrosiab, Christian ossuary

Scortaru, Scythian cauldron

Kara Tepe, Relief

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Afrosiab, Late pottery

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Vologases VI

Kangavar, Back

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Two Medes

Corbu, Seal ring of king Scyles

Hatra, Relief of two dromedaries

Hatra, Parthian pottery

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject hlw3 (OP. Haraiva = Aria)

Sinatruces

Tepe Sialk, Cup from the fourth millennium decorated with a human figure

Tepe Sialk, Iron ore

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief IV

Gabae, Hill

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Zurmala stupa

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

Kara Tepe, Head

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

Artabanus IV

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arian

Phraataces

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

Zagros, Fertile plain north of Nihavand

Hatra, Relief of the god Nergal

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Susa, Relief of Artabanus IV

Hecatompylos, Hill 2

Koktepa, Scissors

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Parthians

Tepe Hesar, View

Afrosiab, Hellenistic column base

Eucratides I of Bactria

Susa, Small Hellenistic or Parthian portrait

Vologases III

Hatra, seen from the air

Tepe Godin, Store rooms

Eshaqvan, Rock tombs, seen from a distance

Balkh, Corinthian capital

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

Tapioszentmarton, Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Hatra, Statue of a general

Tepe Godin, The deep sounding

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Zurmala stupa, Brickwork

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Bactrians

Fayaz Tepe, Wall painting of Alexander the Great

Afrosiab, Zoroastrian fire altar

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

Hamadan, Achaemenid column bases

Phraates IV

Head of a Parthian

Phraates II

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk handle

Crossing the Elburz

Tepe Sialk, Cup from the first millennium

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill, Panorama

Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby

Artabanus III

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Eagle-shaped Scythian brooche

Tus, Wall (in its present form Seljuk)

Iranian Azerbaijan, Iron Age Arrowheads

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Susa, Oil lamp

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Topraq Qala

Tiridates I

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

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

Vonones I

Zurmala stupa, Entrance

Afrosiab, Ditch

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arachosians

Afrosiab, Sogdian weapons

Tepe Sialk, Deep sounding

Jiroft, Weight made of chlorite

Kangavar, Platform

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Susa, Handle of a Parthian coffin

Sarmatian roundel

Parthian mounted archer

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Hecatompylos, Square building

Hamadan, Aqueduct

Zanjan Rud

Scythian arrowheads

Kara Tepe, Relief

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

Hatra, Catapult

Hatra, Temple of Šamaš

Tepe Godin, View from the SE

Ahuan, general view of the edge of the Dasht-e Kavir

Geological layers

Tepe Sialk, Strata

Arrowheads from Hamadan

Isfahan, Zayandeh Rud (and the Si-o-se Bridge)

The "French trench"

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Zagros, Incision (a brook cutting its way through the rocks)

Behistun, Darius' relief, Tritantaechmes

Hatra, Statue of an eagle

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary

Afrosiab, Hellenistic deity

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Hamadan, Hellenistic or Parthian lion

A mountain valley

Chorasmian coin

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap

The Avestan world

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arians

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Old Termez, Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles

Orodes III

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

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

Artabanus I

Vonones II

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter on horseback chasing deer

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

Bowl from Tepe Hesar I

Parthian musician playing a tanbur

Osroes I

Kara Tepe, Head

Iranian Azerbaijan, Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Artabanus II

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Wall of the fort

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Hecatompylos, Hill 1, Clandestine excavation

Afrosiab, Persian dish

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Entrance to the fort

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Axes from Luristan

Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Isfahan, Sharestan bridge

Susa, Parthian jar

A Magian, worshipping at a fire altar (seal impression)

Hyrcania, Terraces

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Isfahan, Atashgah (Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary)

Vologases II

Afrosiab, Ruins

Eburz near Ahuan

Tepe Sialk, Northern hill

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Susa, Parthian bottle

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Afrosiab, Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject m'dy (OP. Mâda = Media)

Behistun, Darius' relief, Frâda (center) and Skunkha (right)

Snake amulet

Orodes II

Amulet of Bes from Iran

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Tepe Sialk, Pot from the fourth millennium BCE, decorated with an ibex

Hecatompylos, Sherds on the plain

Vologases V

Kara Tepe, Relief

Hecatompylos, Hill 3

Tepe Godin, Pottery from level III

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Map of the world of the Scythians

Iron Age ring from Hyrcania/Parthia

Afrosiab, Deformed skulls

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

The Zagros, Mountain pass along the road from Hamadan to the west

Hatra, Decoration with dromedaries

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Apadana

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Afrosiab, Big jar

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Kangavar, Stairs

Arsaces I

Iranian Azerbaijan, Stone weight

Mithradates I the Great

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject ch3rs3m' (OP. Uvârazmîy = Chorasmia)

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Hamadan, Bull's head

A mounted archer

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Eshaqvan, Rock Tombs

Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject skdy (OP. Sugda = Sogdia)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sogdian

Zurmala stupa

Koktepa, Mirror

Kara Tepe, North, Court

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot

Gandj Nameh, Waterfall

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb, Relief of a Magian

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Kerman, Mountains

Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject sg?shkš (OP Sâka = Scythians)

Demetrius I of Bactria

Tepe Sialk, Ziggurat, Summit

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sagartian

Afrosiab, Ruins

Hatra, Relief of an eagle, a military standard, and the Sun

Watercourse

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Gabae, Hill

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Behistun, Darius' relief, Phraortes

Athens, Black-figured dish with a Scythian archer

Kangavar, Foundations of a wall

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief III

Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Parthian

Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest

Gotarzes I

Eucratides II of Bactria

Kara Tepe, Head

Terraces, north of the mountains

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Grey ware from Khurvin

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing