Greater Iran

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

Kara Tepe, Relief

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk_handle

Scythian archer on an Athenian dish

Map of Alexander's Return

A Hellenistic or Parthian lion

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

Fayaz Tepe, wall painting of Alexander the Great

Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler

Axes from Luristan

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

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

Parthian bottle

Fayaz Tepe, Sun god

Summit of the ziggurat

Eucratides I of Bactria

Tepe Nush-e Jan, brickwork inside the fort

Hellenistic column base

Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Hyrcania, terraces

Kara Tepe, Relief

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple

Iron Age ring from western Parthia

A Sagartian

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Early first millennium beak pot

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Artabanus II

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear

The Sagartian king Tritantaechmes on the Behistun relief

Phraates IV

Tiridates I

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Zurmala stupa

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Kara Tepe, Head

Dura Europos, Old Citadel

Chorasmian coin

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Ctesiphon, iwan

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

Clandestine excavation at Hill 1

Eucratides II of Bactria

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Tepe Hesar

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

Weight from Jiroft, made of chlorite

Scythian arrowheads

Afrosiab, Ditch

Sogdian weapons

The famous iwan of Ctesiphon

Early first millennium beak pot

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Parthians

Southern hill, panorama

Kara Tepe, North, Court

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sagartians

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

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Tepe Nush-e Jan, wall of the fort

Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

Vologases V

Behistun relief from a distance

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

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

Tepe Nush-e Jan, fire temple, altar

Vonones II

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Orodes II

The wall of Toos (in its present form Seljuk)

Tepe Godin, store rooms

Kara Tepe, Head

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Dura Europos, Palmyra Gate

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arachosians

A bowl from Tepe Hesar I

Vardanes II

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Kara Tepe, Relief

Late pottery

Afrosiab, Ditch

Crossing the Elburz

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

Tepe Godin, the deep sounding

The citadel of Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Orodes III

Parthian rock reliefs

Map of the world of the Scythians

Coin of Artabanus I

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

Demetrius I of Bactria

Parthian mounted archer

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

Ctesiphon, iwan

A bullshead from Ecbatana

Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Zurmala stupa

Tepe Godin, pottery from level III

The Parthian king Vologases

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

A Parthian dignitary

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sogdians

Kangavar, foundations of a wall

Kangavar, general view

m'dy (OP. Mâda = Media)

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

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

Parthian warrior

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

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

Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Phraataces

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

Deformed skulls

Along the road from Hamadan to the west

Gabae, hill

A Magian, worshipping at a fire altar

Sharestan Bridge

Bactrian coin, last quarter of the second century BCE

Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

Tepe Godin, from the southeast

Entrance of the excavation

Achaemenid column bases

Hellenistic figurine of a deity

Eucratides I of Bactria

Zoroastrian fire altar

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

Jar from the fourth millennium BCE

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Medes

Eshaqvan Rock Tombs

A fertile plain north of Nihavand

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

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

Gotarzes II

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief II

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

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

Sogdian

Vologases VI

ch3rs3m' (OP. Uvârazmîy = Chorasmia)

Vologases II

slng (OP. Zranka = Drangiana)

Coin of Phraates II

Ctesiphon, iwan

Grey ware from Khurvin

Kerman, mountains

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

The Zanjan Rud

Deep sounding

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Derbent Road

Gabae, hill

The 1999-2004 excavations

A mountain valley

Eburz near Ahuan

Mithradates IV

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

The Avestan world

Zoilus of Bactria

Christian ossuary

Cup from the first millennium

Snake amulet

Tepe Godin, map

Eshaqvan from a distance

Artabanus IV

Sogdian pottery

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief IV

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Mithradates II

Relief of Artabanus IV

Northwestern "tower of silence"

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

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

Bactrian camel, Persepolis

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief III

Dura Europos, Temple of the Palmyrene Gods

Vonones I

pltiiw3 (OP. Parthava = Parthia)

The river Oxus

Sinatruces

Handle of a Parthian coffin

A Parthian dignitary

Iron ore

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Arsaces I

Hecatompylos, hill 1

Sarmatian roundel

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

The Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Samarkand, Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Artabanus III, coin

Southern hill

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Parthian quarter

Karwansaray near Ahuan

Afrosiab, Ruins

Sogdian helmet

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Sherds on the plain

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Bactrians

Zurmala stupa

Cadusian arrowheads

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Arians

Demetrius I of Bactria

Northern hill

Dasht-e Kavir

A mounted archer

Topraq Qala

Vardanes I

Parthian bowl

Persian dish

A Tatar khan with a pointed cap

Charax

Parthian jar

Hecatompylos, square building

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Afrosiab, Ruins

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

Phraates III

Mithradates I the Great

hlw3 (OP. Haraiva = Aria)

Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Ctesiphon, iwan

Parthian lute player

Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Tepe Nush-e Jan, apadana

Koktepa, Scissors

Pot from the fourth millennium BCE

Strata

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Kyrgyzstan

A big jar (dolium)

Zurmala stupa, entrance

s3htjl (OP. Bâkhtriš = Bactria)

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Yazd, funeral houses

The "French trench"

An Arian

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

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Tepe Nush-e Jan, inside the fort

Koktepa, Mirror

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Oil lamp

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Head of a Parthian

Terrace wall

Kangavar, back

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Kangavar, portico

Dura Europos, Temple of Zeus Theos

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Aquaduct

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, southern part, Sacae

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Central-Asian statuette of a camel

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

Afrosiab, Ruins

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Orodes I

The Silk Road

Ai Khanum, map

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

Hecatompylos, hill 3

Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

The 1999-2004 excavations

Hecatompylos, hill 2

Mountain plain

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Osroes I

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Amulet of Bes from Iran

Geological layers

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Corinthian capital from Balkh

sg?shkš (OP Sâka = Scythians)

Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Kara Tepe, Head

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Terraces, north of the mountains

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

Two Medes

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

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

Kangavar, summit

Watercourse

Southeastern "tower of silence"

Vologases III

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Weight from Azerbaijan

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

skdy (OP. Sugda = Sogdia)

Tepe Nush-e Jan, from the east

Kangavar, stairs

Vologases IV

Zurmala stupa, brickwork

Scortaru, Scythian cauldron

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Hecatompylos, hill 1

A Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Map of Sogdia

Parthian lion

At the banks of the Oxus river

Arrowheads from Hamadan

Small Hellenistic or Parthian bust

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Eagle-shaped scythian brooche

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

The Behistun relief from below

Gotarzes I

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Cup from the fourth millennium

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

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha