With all the speculation that the relief is a soldier, chieftain, Zoroastrian cleric, or nobleman, Mousavihaji has emphasized that the Sasanian relief does not depict a Sasanian soldier or military ...

The smuggled relief of a bearded man was bought home on Wednesday, days after it was delivered to the Iran embassy in London by the UK National Crime Agency In a message on his Twitter account last ...

Some 50 miles northwest of Baghdad, archaeologists and a large team of local workers have revealed the standing remains of a neglected Sasanian-era (a.d. 224–651) site known as the Zindan ...

have been in close contact with @Britishmuseum since 2016 to secure the possession & release of a unique rock relief sculpture dating to the period of the Sasanian empire in Iran(AD224-651).

Scientists examined ruins from the Sasanian Empire, which lasted from A.D. 224 to 651 and constituted the last imperial dynasty in Persia — what is now Iran. It was the most powerful political ...

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 ...

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 ...