Greater Iran

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Afrosiab, Ruins

Mountain plain

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot (2)

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief II

Fayaz Tepe, Pottery with an Indian inscription

Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm

Geological layers

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sagartian

Hatra, Catapult

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Ahuan, Karwansaray

Parthian quarter

Phraates II

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Hatra, Model of a small temple

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Apadana

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Altar

Kangavar, General view

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery, Court

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: northern wall, Chinese boat

Tepe Sialk, Sherd from the fourth millennium BCE

Eburz near Ahuan

Kara Tepe, West, Court with cells

Vonones II

Hatra, Statue of a general

Hatra, Temple of Šamaš

Map of Hyrcania/Parthia/Aria

Behistun, Safavid bridge on Sasanian piers

Parthian mounted archer

The Caspian Sea at Ramsar

Hamadan, Achaemenid column bases

Afrosiab, Hellenistic column base

Tepe Sialk, Iron ore

Halchayan, Parthian warrior

Iranian Azerbaijan, Stone weight

Kara Tepe, West, Round Stupa

Kara Tepe, West, Skeleton

Hatra, Parthian pottery

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

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Tepe Godin, The deep sounding

The Elburz from Tepe Hesar

Dura Europos, Temple of Aphlad, Relief of Aphlad

The Zagros west of Qazvin

Scythian arrowheads

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

Bottle from Tepe Hesar level II

Medgidia, Fake Scythian sword (akinakes)

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Hatra, Statue of an eagle

Karmir Blur, Scythian arrowheads

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of king Vologases

Iron Age ring from Hyrcania/Parthia

Tigranocerta, Sasanian bullae

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa, inside

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sakâ tigrakhaudâ

Fayaz Tepe, Standing Buddha

Afrosiab, Deformed skulls

Hatra, Relief of the god Nergal

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

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

Map of Alexander's Persian Campaign

Kara Tepe, Painted pottery

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

Gilded disk from the Astrakhan area

Phraates III

Artabanus IV

Bactrian coin

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arians

The Silk Road

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian

Arsaces I

The river Oxus

Hyrcanian cup, decorated with gazelles

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: western wall, delegates

Behistun, Parthian rock reliefs

Diodotus I of Bactria, coin

Fayaz Tepe, Necklace

Vologases IV

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a seated Buddha

Hamadan, Aqueduct

Scortaru, Scythian cauldron

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Kangavar, Stairs

Fayaz Tepe, Wall Painting of a group of courtiers

Zanjan Rud

Kara Tepe, Head

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

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

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Arachosians

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Mithradates I the Great

Hecatompylos, Hill 3

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Bactrian camel

Phraataces

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

The Jaxartes, between Samarkand and Tashkent

Artabanus III

Hatra, Statue of a general holding a baby

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Hamadan, Sasanian flask

Oxus, FIsherman

Isfahan, Atashgah (Sasanian fort with fire sanctuary)

Kyrgyzstan

Varahsha, Relief of a hunter on horseback chasing deer

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

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Entrance to the fort

Aššur, Parthian stele of a worshipper

Vardanes II

Afrosiab, Big jar

Tiridates I

Susa, Oil lamp

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief III

Afrosiab, Persian dish

Tepe Sialk, Ziggurat, Summit

Iranian Azerbaijan, Disk with a deity with two wild animals

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Osroes I

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Afrosiab, Sogdian pottery

Fergana Valley, Bronze cauldron

Kara Tepe, Relief

Hecatompylos, Square building

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary, Brickwork

Tepe Sialk, Early first millennium beak pot

Orodes I

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall, two dromedary riders

Kara Tepe, Frieze of an elephant

Susa, Parthian jar

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

Afrosiab, Ruins

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Inside the fort

Afrosiab, Late pottery

Orodes II

Jiroft, Weight made of chlorite

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Tepe Sialk, Northern hill

Novocherkassk, Vessel with an elk handle

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

Mithradates IV

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Sogdians

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Behistun, Free-standing rock relief of a Parthian dignitary

Terraces, north of the mountains

Eagle-shaped Scythian brooche

Kara Tepe, North, Court

Behistun, Darius' relief, Tritantaechmes

A mountain valley

The ruins from Ai Khanum

Demetrius I of Bactria

Kara Tepe, Relief

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence" (1)

Tepe Godin, Map

Hatra, Decoration with dromedaries

Dura Europos, a Parthian votive relief

Zurmala stupa

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

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Afrosiab, Ruin of a palace

Fayaz Tepe, Miniature vessel

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithadates II

Charax

Houses in Kampyr Tepe

Tus, Wall (in its present form Seljuk)

Sarmatian roundel

Zurmala stupa, Brickwork

Hamadan, Hellenistic or Parthian lion

Afrosiab, Hellenistic pilgrim flask

Tepe Hisar, Late Bronze Age phial

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Arachosians

Koktepa, Mirror

Vardanes I

Hecatompylos, Hill 1, Clandestine excavation

A mounted archer

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Parthians

Hatra, Relief of a reclining prince

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Behistun, Darius' relief, Phraortes

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

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Hatra, Statue of the Moon goddess

Kangavar, Portico

Hamadan, Bull's head

Belogradets, Cimmerian tombstone

Behistun, Parthian relief of Gotarzes II defeating Meherdates

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arachosian

Balkh, Corinthian capital

Kangavar, Back

Kara Tepe, West, Inside a cave

The Wall of Alexander near Gonbad-e Kavus

Naqš-e Rustam, Parthian relief of a lion

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

Tepe Sialk, The 1999-2004 excavations

Behistun Rock, seen from the east

Kara Tepe, Relief

Gabae, Hill

Gotarzes II

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb, Relief of a Magian

Hecatompylos, Hill 2

Hatra, Relief of two dromedaries

Topraq Qala

Mihai Eminescu, Fish-shaped horsegear

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Bactrians

Gandj Nameh, Waterfall

Vologases VI

Afrosiab, Ditch

Fayaz Tepe, Wall painting of Alexander the Great

Corbu, Seal ring of king Scyles

Gotarzes I

Vologases III

Ai Khanum, Map

Axes from Luristan

Zagros, Nesaean Plain, surrounding Ecbatana (modern Hamadan)

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Brickwork inside the fort

Isfahan, Sharestan bridge

Kampyr Tepe, Wall (reconstructed)

Zagros, Fertile plain north of Nihavand

Afrosiab, seen from Samarkand's observatory

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Two Medes

Eucratides I of Bactria

Tepe Godin, Pottery from level III

Hyrcania, Terraces

Afrosiab, Sogdian helmet

Tepe Sialk, Cup from the first millennium

Afrosiab, Zoroastrian fire altar

Vologases II

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Relief IV

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sacae

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Fire sanctuary

Hamadan, Parthian oil lamp

Hatra, Iwan, Great temple, Head of a priest

Two Tatars, one with a pointed cap

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

Koktepa, Scissors

Yazd, Northwestern "tower of silence"

Hamadan, Terrace wall

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

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

Afrosiab, Figurine of Anahita

Tus, Statue of Firdausi

Gonur Deppe, Horse tomb

Gabae, Hill

Kara Tepe, North, Court, Column bases

Shorsuv, Portrait of a warrior

Sinatruces

Zoilus of Bactria

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Sogdian

Kerman, Mountains

Fayaz Tepe, Seated Buddha

Kampyr Tepe, Houses

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

Parthian musician playing a tanbur

Eucratides I of Bactria

Fayaz Tepe, Stupa

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Parthian

Kara Tepe, Head

Artabanus II

Tepe Sialk, Deep sounding

A Magian (Oxus Treasure)

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sagartians

Eshaqvan, Rock tombs, seen from a distance

Yazd, Funeral houses

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill

Lumina, Stele of a Scythian ruler

Kara Tepe, West, Caves

Grey ware from Khurvin

The "French trench"

Parthian bowl

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Arian

Valley of the Kunar, from an airplane

Athens, Black-figured dish with a Scythian archer

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian figurine of a harpist

Afrosiab, Ruin of a wall

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

Fayaz Tepe, Disk of the Sun god

Bowl from Tepe Hesar I

Artabanus I

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

Kampyr Tepe, Plain

Eucratides II of Bactria

Kara Tepe, North, General view

Tepe Nush-e Jan, From the east

Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

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

Zurmala stupa

Fayaz Tepe, Monastery and Stupa, model

Tepe Sialk, Strata

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Sogdians

Susa, Parthian bottle

The Avestan world

Map of the world of the Scythians

Hatra, seen from the air

Eshaqvan, Rock Tombs

Afrosiab, Ruins

Zurmala stupa

Nineveh, Funerary mask, Parthian age

Susa, Hellenistic or Parthian gargoyle

Plate, decorated with a snake (Early Bronze Age)

Ctesiphon, Iwan

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

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

Iranian Azerbaijan, Iron Age Arrowheads

Demetrius I of Bactria

Afrosiab, Christian ossuary

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

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Kara Tepe, Head

Phraates IV

Hecatompylos, Sherds on the plain

Amulet of Bes from Iran

Ctesiphon, Iwan

Afrosiab, Ambassadors Fresco: southern wall

Kangavar, Foundations of a wall

Kara Tepe, Lid of a pot

Snake amulet

Derbent Road

Tepe Godin, View from the SE

Tepe Hesar, View

Crossing the Elburz

Kara Tepe, South, Two caves

Orodes III

Zurmala stupa, Entrance

Afrosiab, Sogdian weapons

Chorasmian coin

Modern painting of Zarathustra

Watercourse

Behistun, Parthian relief of Mithradates II, drawing

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

Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Gotarzes relief

Afrosiab, Ditch

Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Southern part, Medes

Hecatompylos, Hill 1

Shashtepa, Fragment of a rhyton

Map of Sogdia

Tepe Hesar, Figurine

Tepe Sialk, Southern hill, Panorama

Afrosiab, Hellenistic deity

Yazd, Southeastern "tower of silence"

Kangavar, Platform

Head of a Parthian

Tapioszentmarton, Scythian shield emblem in the shape of a stag

Susa, Small Hellenistic or Parthian portrait

Persepolis, Apadana, North Stairs, Tribute Bearers, Scythians

Fayaz Tepe, Fountain

Mithradates II

Vologases V

Susa, Handle of a Parthian coffin

Tepe Nush-e Jan, Wall of the fort

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

Susa, Relief of Artabanus IV

Vonones I

Kara Tepe, West, "Greek" column base

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

Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, Anubanini Relief

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

Tepe Godin, Store rooms

Dukkan-e Daud, Tomb

Arrowheads from Hamadan