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Achaemenid Vessel
Handle
Iran, 4th c. BCE
It is made of Silver,
partially Gold and the
Original Size is 27 x 15 x
10 cm
Musée du Louvre

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Musée du Louvre

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Isfahan
Shah Abbasi Hotel

5.
Isfahan
Hammam-e Ali Gholi Agha water-tab
Kashan
Khan historical bathroom

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Kashan
Imamzadeh Helal Ibn Ali ©Afshin Bakhtiar
Badrud
Imamzadeh Agha Ali Abbas ©mojtaba akbari

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Kashan
Emamzadeh Ebrahim
Tomb

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Old bazaar in the center of the city of Kashan
The most stunning feature of the bazaar is its absolutely stunning ceiling

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Kashan bazaar has a famous architecture, especially at its Timche-ye
Amin od-Dowleh section, where a grand light well was built in the 19th
century.

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The bazaar is still in use and is a few miles in total length. In the bazaar's
complex beside the main bazaars, there are several mosques, tombs,
caravanserais, arcades, baths, and water reservoirs that each were
constructed in a different period.

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Ceiling of the old bazaar in the center of the city of Kashan

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Kerman Bagh-e-Shahzdeh (meaning Prince’s Garden)

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Kerman Bagh-e-Shahzdeh

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Kerman Bagh-e-Shahzdeh

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Star-shaped tile with camel
Shrine of Habakkuk in
Toyserkan

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Maragha
Gunbad-i Qabud, 12century

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Maragha
Gunbad-i
Qabud,
12century
©Prof. Richard T.
Mortel

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Maragha
Statue of Anahita
Statue of Anahita
by Raheleh Filsoofi

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Maragha
Statue of Anahita

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Anahita

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4th-6th century silver and gilt Sassanian vessel,
assumed to be depicting Anahita Cleveland Museum of Art
Anahita Dish,
400-600 AD, Sasanian
dynasty, silver and gilt
Cleveland Museum of Art

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Sassanian vessel Simorq Persian Mythical Bird and
Anahita on Simorq's back, flies the skies of Persia
Achemid Stone
Capital from
Darius I`s palace
at Susa
Musée du Louvre

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It is typical of Achaemenid art in combining
elements taken from different civilizations to
form a coherent stylistic ensemble
This colossal capital from one of the
thirty-six monumental columns which
supported the roof of the apadana at
Susa is evidence of an architectural
tradition purely Iranian

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Achemid Stone Capital with
Kneeling Bull Protomes and
double volutes from Apadana
(reception hall) of Darius I,
Susa
Musée du Louvre

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Frieze of Lions from Darius I`s
palace at Susa Musée du Louvre

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Frieze of Archers from
Darius I`s palace at Susa
Musée du Louvre
Darius I "the Great" (549-
486 BCE) was a king of
Persia who ruled for 35
years

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Frieze of Archers from Darius I`s palace at Susa
Musée du Louvre
Persian Griffin from Darius I`s palace at Susa

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Glazed brick come from the
palace of Darius I at Susa
Musée du Louvre

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Homa Persian
Mythical Bird
Persepolis

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Persepolis was the capital of the mighty
ancient Persian Empire. It was a beautiful
city, adorned with precious artworks of which
unfortunately very little survives today. When
Alexander the Great conquered the city, he
gave orders to the Macedonians to destroy it,
in the similar fashion as they had already
done in with Thebes when Greece was
conquered. The palace of the Persian
Achaemenid kings was burned, the city was
looted and its citizens massacred, in one of
the most brutal and savage acts in history
PersianHorsefromPersepolis

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Most of the sculptures were
also destroyed and what
remains is very little that still
testifies of the great artistic
abilities of the ancient
Persians. The Persian Horse
is one such proof of the
greatness of the ancient
Persian art. This is a hand
carved sculpture of an ancient
Persian horse, one of the
many that once decorated the
palaces of the Persian "kings
of the kings". It was first
carved in clay, and then it was
produced in cast stone.
Sassanid era horse head
found in Kerman Musée du Louvre

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Tehran
Bronze plate, Reza Abbasi Museum
© Rama Arya

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The Shapur Plate was produced during the
fourth century CE for Shapur II, the Sasanian
king Smithsonian Museum
Sassanian Silver Gilt Plate
The Miho Museum Kyoto, Japan

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Sasanian plate with king hunting rams - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Kashan
The Tabatabei
traditional house
(also known as
Khaneh
Tabatabaei ha or
Khan-e
Tabatabei)
© Gul Chotrani

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Isfahan A banquet of song and dance Hasht Behesht palace

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Isfahan A banquet of song and dance Hasht Behesht palace

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Isfahan A banquet of song and dance Hasht Behesht palace

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Isfahan,
Painted
muqarnas
ceiling,
Hasht
Behesht
(Eight
Paradises)

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Kermanshah The mourning
place and Hossainieh of
Moavenol Molk (Tekiyeye
Moavenol Molk)

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Kermanshah
Ahuramazda, ceramic panels from the
Tekkieh of Mo'aven ol-Molk, the
mourning place and Hossainieh of
Moavenol Molk

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IsfahanMinaret,IranphotofromNationalGeographicMagazine1958

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MashhadImamRezashrine

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MashhadImamRezashrine

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Tehran
ornate inscription
inside the
women's
mosque, in the
heart of the
Grand Bazaar

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Arg-é Bam (Bam Citadel) in Bam, Iran, built
before 500BC

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu
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Sound: Parisa - Tasnif, Avaz & Saz