Greater Iran

Bactrian coin

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief II

Zurmala stupa, brickwork

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Zurmala stupa

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of king Vologases

Susa, Parthian bottle

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sogdian

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot

Hecatompylos, Sherds on the plain

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Snake amulet

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk handle

Crossing the Elburz

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Zagros, Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Vardanes II

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

Hatra, Temple of Šamaš

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

Tepe Sialk, Ziggurat, Summit

Koktepa, Scissors

Hamadan, Achaemenid column bases

Tepe Sialk, Cup from the first millennium

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Brickwork inside the fort

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Phraates II

Chorasmian coin

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

The Silk Road

Vologases III

Afrosiab, Figurine of Anahita

Zurmala stupa, entrance

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

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

Arrowheads from Hamadan

Afrosiab, Late pottery

Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince

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

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

Hatra, Parthian pottery

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Bactrians

Parthian musician playing a tanbur

Tus, Wall (in its present form Seljuk)

Tepe Hesar, View

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

Orodes I

Gandj Nameh, Waterfall

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

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

Terraces, north of the mountains

Hatra, Statue of a general

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Behistun, Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Parthian

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Behistun, Darius' relief, Tritantaechmes

Tepe Godin, The deep sounding

Arsaces I

Persian dish

Vonones I

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

Demetrius I of Bactria

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

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

Susa, Small Hellenistic or Parthian portrait

Derbent Road

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill, Panorama

Eshaqvan, Rock Tombs

Topraq Qala

Tepe Nush-e Jan, From the east

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence" (1)

Zagros, Fertile plain north of Nihavand

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Apadana

Eagle-shaped Scythian brooche

Parthian warrior

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Brickwork

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

Geological layers

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Vonones II

Afrosiab, Ditch

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian camel

Osroes I

Eucratides II of Bactria

Hatra, Relief of the god Nergal

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

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

Afrosiab, Sogdian helmet

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Wall of the fort

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

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

Kara Tepe, Head

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Tepe Godin, Store rooms

Hamadan, Hellenistic or Parthian lion

Kangavar, General view

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Parthian bowl

Eburz near Ahuan

Deformed skulls

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Entrance to the fort

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arian

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

Tepe Sialk, Northern hill

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Mithradates I the Great

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Iranian Azerbaijan, Iron Age Arrowheads

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sagartian

Fayaz Tepe, Sun god

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Samarkand, Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sagartians

Balkh, Corinthian capital

Tepe Godin, Map

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Watercourse

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

The "French trench"

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Kangavar, Stairs

Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess

Hamadan, Bull's head

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Bowl from Tepe Hesar I

At the banks of the Oxus river

Hecatompylos, Hill 3

Gabae, Hill

Hatra, Statue of an eagle

Sogdian weapons

Demetrius I of Bactria

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Tepe Sialk, Strata

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arians

Kara Tepe, Relief

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief IV

Charax

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

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

Isfahan, Sharestan bridge

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Iranian Azerbaijan, Stone weight

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Kangavar, Portico

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

Tepe Sialk, Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb, Relief of a Magian

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Kangavar, Back

Samarkand, Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

Gotarzes II

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief III

Yazd, Funeral houses

Christian ossuary

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

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arachosian

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Tepe Sialk, Deep sounding

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Artabanus IV

Kangavar, Foundations of a wall

Koktepa, Mirror

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Gabae, Hill

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

Gotarzes I

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

Parthian mounted archer

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

Vardanes I

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

Tiridates I

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Hamadan, Terrace wall

Naqš-e Rustam, Parthian relief of a lion

Zoroastrian fire altar

Map of the world of the Scythians

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Phraates III

Fayaz Tepe, wall painting of Alexander the Great

Afrosiab, Ruins

Hatra, Relief of two dromedaries

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Sogdian pottery

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

Scortaru, Scythian cauldron

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

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

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill

Hatra, Model of a small temple

Kyrgyzstan

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Isfahan, Atashgah (Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary)

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Susa, Oil lamp

Ai Khanum, Map

The river Oxus

Corbu, Seal ring of king Scyles

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Kara Tepe, Head

Zurmala stupa

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Kerman, Mountains

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Parthians

Artabanus III

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Axes from Luristan

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

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

Hecatompylos, Hill 2

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Behistun, Darius' relief, Phraortes

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Iron Age ring from Hyrcania/Parthia

Afrosiab, Ruins

Eucratides I of Bactria

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb

Mithradates IV

Gilded disk from the Astrakhan area

Hellenistic figurine of a deity

A mounted archer

Ahuan, Karwansaray

Vologases IV

Artabanus II

A big jar (dolium)

Susa, Handle of a Parthian coffin

Parthian quarter

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Two Medes

Kara Tepe, North, Court

Zoilus of Bactria

Behistun, Parthian rock reliefs

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter on horseback chasing deer

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

Phraates IV

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot (2)

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

Amulet of Bes from Iran

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Zurmala stupa

Orodes III

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arachosians

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Altar

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

Athens, Black-figured dish with a Scythian archer

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Kangavar, Platform

Iranian Azerbaijan, Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Sinatruces

Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles

Tapioszentmarton, Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

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

Scythian arrowheads

Mountain plain

Eshaqvan, Rock tombs, seen from a distance

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

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

Vologases VI

Phraataces

Hatra, Decoration with dromedaries

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Kara Tepe, Head

Jiroft, Weight made of chlorite

Head of a Parthian

Tepe Sialk, Iron ore

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Mithradates II

Hamadan, Aqueduct

Susa, Relief of Artabanus IV

Tepe Godin, View from the SE

Vologases II

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sakâ tigrakhaudâ

Grey ware from Khurvin

Kara Tepe, Relief

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Eucratides I of Bactria

Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby

Susa, Parthian jar

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler

Hatra, seen from the air

Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Vologases V

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

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

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Arachosians

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Hecatompylos, Square building

Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Map of Sogdia

Afrosiab, Ruins

A mountain valley

Tepe Godin, Pottery from level III

Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap

Afrosiab, Ditch

Hellenistic column base

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

Hatra, Catapult

Hyrcania, Terraces

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Artabanus I

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Kara Tepe, Relief

Sarmatian roundel

Hecatompylos, Hill 1, Clandestine excavation

Zanjan Rud

Orodes II

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

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

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

The Avestan world

Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations