they worship in temples where fires burn as symbols of divine light. The scientists examined cypress wood taken from the Palace of Ardashir I, who established the Sasanian Empire. They also looked ...

Both structures reflected the site’s importance as a center of power and worship during the reign of the Sasanian king Khosrow II Parvīz (590–628 CE). The layout of the Royal Garden suggests that it ...

Important developments during the early Sasanian period were: A single Zoroastrian church was created under the control of Persia A single canon of Avestan texts was compiled by Ardashir's chief ...

Glass, Gilding, and Grand Design: Art of Sasanian Iran (224-642) presents masterpieces illustrating the splendor of the court arts of the Sasanian dynasty, which ruled the ancient Near East from the ...

Sasanian coins are one of the most important sources for understanding the art, politics and economy of the Sasanian period, a cultural heritage expert from the institute said on Saturday. They reveal ...

Some 50 miles northwest of Baghdad, archaeologists and a large team of local workers have revealed the standing remains of a neglected Sasanian-era (a.d. 224–651) site known as the Zindan ...

It was the second excavation campaign undertaken by the Frankfurt archaeologist to the approximately three-hectare site of Gird-î Qalrakh on the Shahrizor plain, where ruins from the Sasanian and ...

The Persian Empire spanned roughly 550 B.C.E. to 650 C.E. and saw three primary dynasties in that time: the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian. As the “dominant nation of western Asia for over a ...

In approximately 256 C.E. Dura-Europas, a Roman fort known as “the Pompeii of the Syrian Desert,” fell victim to a Sasanian Persian siege in what is now Syria. When archeologist Simon James ...

The piece likely hails from the 3rd century C.E. when the Sasanian Empire ruled greater Iran, according to the Guardian. “It belongs to a period when Iran was the center of a powerful empire ...