Greater Iran

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Hatra, Decoration with dromedaries

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

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

Tepe Godin, Map

Gabae, Hill

Naqš-e Rustam, Parthian relief of a lion

Eshaqvan, Rock tombs, seen from a distance

Zurmala stupa, Entrance

Susa, Parthian bottle

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Vardanes II

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

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

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

Koktepa, Mirror

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

Kangavar, Stairs

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

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

Artabanus I

Afrosiab, Sogdian weapons

Vardanes I

Mountain plain

Susa, Handle of a Parthian coffin

Iranian Azerbaijan, Iron Age Arrowheads

Hamadan, Aqueduct

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

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

Zurmala stupa

Eucratides II of Bactria

Gotarzes II

Vonones II

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary

Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief IV

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

Hatra, Catapult

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief II

The Silk Road

Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sagartian

Hyrcania, Terraces

Grey ware from Khurvin

Tepe Hesar, View

Vologases V

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

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

Artabanus II

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

Kara Tepe, Head

Jiroft, Weight made of chlorite

Hecatompylos, Sherds on the plain

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Susa, Small Hellenistic or Parthian portrait

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

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

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

Kara Tepe, Relief

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arian

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

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

Mithradates IV

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

Afrosiab, Zoroastrian fire altar

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Afrosiab, Late pottery

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

Vologases III

A mountain valley

Hatra, Model of a small temple

Kangavar, Platform

Hamadan, Terrace wall

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arachosian

Arsaces I

Afrosiab, Hellenistic column base

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

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

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Afrosiab, Ruins

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Scortaru, Scythian cauldron

Tepe Nush-e Jan, From the east

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Parthian musician playing a tanbur

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Brickwork

Iranian Azerbaijan, Stone weight

Behistun, Darius' relief, Tritantaechmes

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

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

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb, Relief of a Magian

Afrosiab, Ditch

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Bowl from Tepe Hesar I

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

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

Hamadan, Achaemenid column bases

Phraates IV

Orodes I

Charax

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

Kara Tepe, Head

Snake amulet

Koktepa, Scissors

Tus, Wall (in its present form Seljuk)

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Tepe Sialk, Deep sounding

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Kangavar, Back

Hatra, Statue of a general

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Iranian Azerbaijan, Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Susa, Relief of Artabanus IV

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Corbu, Seal ring of king Scyles

Zanjan Rud

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sogdian

Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Axes from Luristan

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Parthian bowl

Chorasmian coin

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sagartians

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Hecatompylos, Square building

A mounted archer

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Fayaz Tepe, Disk of the Sun god

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Tepe Sialk, Iron ore

Tiridates I

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Apadana

Afrosiab, Figurine of Anahita

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

Hecatompylos, Hill 1, Clandestine excavation

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Isfahan, Atashgah (Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary)

Watercourse

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

The "French trench"

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Vonones I

Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby

Demetrius I of Bactria

Tepe Godin, The deep sounding

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

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

Afrosiab, Ruins

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

Fayaz Tepe, Wall painting of Alexander the Great

Amulet of Bes from Iran

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

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Tepe Sialk, Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian

Iron Age ring from Hyrcania/Parthia

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Kara Tepe, Head

Tepe Godin, View from the SE

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Kangavar, Foundations of a wall

Hatra, seen from the air

Isfahan, Sharestan bridge

Kyrgyzstan

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Two Medes

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

Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Eagle-shaped Scythian brooche

Tepe Sialk, Ziggurat, Summit

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Head of a Parthian

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Parthian

Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Gandj Nameh, Waterfall

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

Behistun, Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

Artabanus III

Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap

Afrosiab, Ruins

Eucratides I of Bactria

Artabanus IV

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk handle

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Eucratides I of Bactria

Kerman, Mountains

Kangavar, Portico

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot (2)

Mithradates I the Great

Zurmala stupa

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Hecatompylos, Hill 2

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Entrance to the fort

Vologases II

Hamadan, Bull's head

Balkh, Corinthian capital

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

Mithradates II

Parthian mounted archer

The Avestan world

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Hatra, Statue of an eagle

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

Kangavar, General view

Ai Khanum, Map

Topraq Qala

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Zurmala stupa

Susa, Oil lamp

Phraates III

Scythian arrowheads

Tepe Sialk, Cup from the first millennium

Tepe Sialk, Strata

Eshaqvan, Rock Tombs

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian camel

Zurmala stupa, Brickwork

Zagros, Fertile plain north of Nihavand

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

Afrosiab, Deformed skulls

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

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

Sarmatian roundel

Arrowheads from Hamadan

Behistun, Parthian rock reliefs

Orodes II

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of king Vologases

Kara Tepe, Relief

Hatra, Relief of two dromedaries

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Phraataces

Gabae, Hill

Vologases IV

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Gilded disk from the Astrakhan area

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arians

Afrosiab, Christian ossuary

Afrosiab, Hellenistic deity

Tepe Sialk, Northern hill

Crossing the Elburz

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Altar

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Ahuan, Karwansaray

Afrosiab, Persian dish

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arachosians

Parthian quarter

Vologases VI

Eburz near Ahuan

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill, Panorama

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

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Osroes I

Terraces, north of the mountains

Susa, Parthian jar

Behistun, Darius' relief, Phraortes

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Bactrians

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

Zoilus of Bactria

Bactrian coin

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Brickwork inside the fort

Afrosiab, Sogdian helmet

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Oxus, FIsherman

Hatra, Parthian pottery

Kara Tepe, North, Court

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Hecatompylos, Hill 3

Yazd, Funeral houses

Geological layers

Sinatruces

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Hatra, Temple of Šamaš

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

Map of Sogdia

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

Tepe Godin, Pottery from level III

Tepe Godin, Store rooms

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Ctesiphon, Iwan

The river Oxus

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sakâ tigrakhaudâ

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Arachosians

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Kara Tepe, Relief

Afrosiab, Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Map of the world of the Scythians

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief III

Gotarzes I

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter on horseback chasing deer

Demetrius I of Bactria

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Hatra, Relief of the god Nergal

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Zagros, Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess

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

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb

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

Orodes III

Hamadan, Hellenistic or Parthian lion

Afrosiab, Ditch

Athens, Black-figured dish with a Scythian archer

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Wall of the fort

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Derbent Road

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Parthians

Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear

Halchayan, Parthian warrior

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Afrosiab, Big jar

Tapioszentmarton, Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Phraates II

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence" (1)