An international study reveals that 1,500 years ago Persian metallurgists had already mastered brass, a material that would later become widespread in the Islamic world. The study, published in the ...
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The Sasanian emperors minted a considerable number of silver coins, known as drachms (pronounced ‘drams’). The royal portraits on these coins allow for the identification of kings depicted in other ...
Prolegomena : Ancient Iran in the context of world history -- 1. Iran before the Sasanians -- 2. Ardaxšīr I and the establishment of the Sasanian Empire -- 3. Šābuhr I : The strongest world Empire in ...
A team of scientists from the British Museum and the University of Cambridge analyzed archaeological pieces from two cities of the Sasanian Empire —Merv, in present-day Turkmenistan, and Nineveh, in ...
Introduction: Towards a New History of Jews and the Sasanian Empire -- Jewish Society under Sasanian Rule: From Isolation to Integration -- Competing for Power: Jewish Elites and Sasanian Culture -- ...
Istakhr (also spelled Estakhr) is located in the vicinity of the UNESCO-registered Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550–330 BC). The tall stone gateway, which sits next ...
Photo taken on March 28, 2018 shows the Shahr-i-Gholghola or the City of Screams, site of the Sasanian Empire (AD 224-651), in Bamyan province, Afghanistan. The site, along with other historical sites ...