Art & Images

Archaeological Discoveries at Susa

The progress of oriental archaeology leads us from one surprise to another. Year after year discoveries are made in rapid succession, which we watch with breathless interest as they transform and elucidate some chapter in the history of those primitive civilizations from which our own is in part derived. Following the discoveries made in ChaldÃ"a, ...

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British Museum - Ancient Iran (Room 52)

The Rahim Irvani Gallery 3000 BC "" AD 651. Iran was a major centre of ancient culture. It was rich in valuable natural resources, especially metals, and played an important role in the development of ancient Middle Eastern civilisation and trade. Room 52 highlights these ancient interconnections and the rise of distinctive local cultures, such as ...

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Anahita Temple

Anahita, or Nahid, was a major deity in the Persia. She was the protector of water and the goddess of beauty, fertility and fecundity. The Anahita Temple is the name of one of two archaeological sites in Iran popularly thought to have been attributed to the ancient deity Anahita. The larger and more widely known of the two is located at KangÃ-var i...

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Fravahr

Fravahr an old Iranian religious sign, from Persepolis (ca. 520 BCE)...

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Achaemenid Glazed Brick Relief Panel

Glazed brick relief panel - Achaemenid Persian, late 6th century BC From Susa, south-west Iran. From the palace of Darius I, ruler of the largest empire in antiquity. This panel is made of polychrome glazed bricks which were found by French excavators scattered in a courtyard of the palace built by the Persian king Darius I (522-486 BC). At least ...

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Bronze axe-head

Luristan culture, 10th-7th centuries BC. From Luristan, western Iran... The style of this cast bronze axe-head links it to the region of Luristan in western Iran. Bronzes of this kind were plundere d from the cemeteries and shrines of the area from the 1920s onwards. Many of the graves were rich in bronzes, and even the poorest male graves appear t...

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Takht-e-Soleyman

The archaeological site of Takht-e- Soleyman (the Throne of Solomon) is considered to be one of the most ancient sites, located in North Western Iran. The ruins of Takht-e- Soleyman lie in a broad and remote mountain valley between cities of Zanjan and Tekab. The site includes the principal Zoroastrian sanctuary partly rebuilt in the Ilkhanid (Mong...

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Bronze Persian Bowl

Bronze bowl. Persian repousse bowl in the form of an open lotus flower. 5th century B.C. Achaemenid....

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