The pictured Sassanid-era stucco plaque set within a central square depicts the bust of a smiling woman—likely a Sasanian ...

Restoration work has commenced on the Vigol fire temple, a rare archaeological site from the Sassanid era located in the ...

TEHRAN, May 10 (MNA) -- Experts have recently warned cultural heritage officials of the damage being done to the ruins of Gur, the first capital of the Sassanid dynasty, by farmers cultivating the ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (MNA) –- Two Sassanid fragments of inscriptions were discovered at Sarvestan Palace in Fars Province, southern Iran, said director of the historical site, Amir-Piruz Daquqi, Sunday.

There are many historical monuments in the city, which are mainly left from the Sassanid era. This city is also the birthplace of the founder of the Sassanid dynasty, Artaxerxes, dating back to ...

Arts under Sassanid rule Under the Sassanians, Iranian art experienced a general renaissance. Architecture often took grandiose proportions, such as the palaces at Ctesiphon, Firuzabad and Sarvestan.

"This kind of the Sassanid religious architecture has previously been found in southern Iran, but this first time such a structure with these characteristics has been identified in central Iran," ...

Sassanid Persia, unlike Egypt or Syria, was the nodal point of a vibrant, powerful imperial state, not the province of a decadent Byzantine Roman empire.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Date/Time and Place of an Event Note ...