“Moreover, a Sassanid bas-relief carving and several clay seals bearing animal and geometric motifs mark the most important relics discovered at the site so far.” Under Sassanid's rule, Persian arts ...

The excavated objects, which include plasterworks, yield valuable information about the artistic and cultural patterns of the Sassanid expertise in the region, the expert said “Those works of plaster ...

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 ...

Both structures reflected the site’s importance as a center of power and worship during the reign of the Sasanian king Khosrow II Parvīz (590–628 CE). The layout of the Royal Garden suggests that it ...

The top layer dates back to the Sasanian period, which stretched from 224 to 651 A.D. during the reign of the Sasanian Empire—one of the last pre-Islamic empires of Iran. Unfortunately, ...

The Persian Empire spanned roughly 550 B.C.E. to 650 C.E. and saw three primary dynasties in that time: the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian. As the “dominant nation of western Asia for over a ...

It was the second excavation campaign undertaken by the Frankfurt archaeologist to the approximately three-hectare site of Gird-î Qalrakh on the Shahrizor plain, where ruins from the Sasanian and ...

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 ...

In The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context, Dr. Shai Secunda of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has written a fascinating monograph that attempts to connect some features ...