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As in other Sassanid symbols, Taq-e Bostan and its bas-reliefs highlight the power, religious tendencies, glory, honor, the vastness of the court, games and fighting spirit, festivities and joy of ...
The Sasanian "Kings of Kings" built a number of palaces and forts, as well as Zoroastrian fire temples. ... they worship in temples where fires burn as symbols of divine light.
February 14 - May 20, 2007. 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 ...
Layout of the Royal Garden at Qaṣr-e Šīrīn superimposed on aerial imagery from Bing Maps. Credit: Z. Valizadeh and Y. Moradi . The Royal Garden, known in Persian as “bāḥ”, covered an area of ...
TEHRAN – A group of linguists and coinage experts has recently finished work on 250 Sassanid coins being kept in treasure troves of cultural heritage museums in Kerman province. ... “They were not ...
Monumental in size and boldly illustrated, the Great Mongol Shahnama is the most celebrated of all medieval Persian manuscripts. Considered Iran’s national epic, the Shahnama (Book of kings) was ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
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