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Choqa zanbil
Chogha Zanbil is an ancient Elamite complex in the Khuzestan
It was built about 1250 BCE by the king Untash-Napirisha, mainly to honor the great god Inshushinak. Its original name was Dur Untash, which means 'town of
attempted to create a new religious center (possibly intended to replace Susa) which would unite the gods of both highland and lowland Elam at one site.
Bistoon Inscription, Bistoon:
Henry Rawlins on, a young British officer, made the primary scientific studies regarding the engravements and inscriptions of Bistoon in 1835. After which several scientists who added their discoveries to this historical treasure carried on this research. The text of this inscription was engraved in the breast of the mountain in 522 BC. By a decree from Dariush. The same relates to the war, which lasted for two and a half years, between him and his opponents in order to gain power
In Kangavar, on an elevated rocky platform, is the remnant of a majestic structure. The same belongs to the pre-Islamic era and was known as Anahita. The name of this temple is depicted from Anahita (Nahid) who was a deity and guard angel of water, abundance and blessing. Some believe that the structure dates back to the Parthian era, whilst upon this relic the evidences of this period and the early Islamic era can also be noted. According to scientific researches, the architectural characteristics of this temple have acquired inspiration from that of the Achaemenian age
Ganj Nameh Inscriptions,
These inscriptions are relics from the period of 'Darius' and 'Khashayar Shah' of the Achaemenian era. The said are located 5 km. west of
Bam Citadel:
To the north east of the Bam city, in the skirts of a gigantic rock is the foundations of a fortified castle, reputedly known as the Bam Citadel. This citadel was actually the old city of
(Persepolis (Takht-e-Jamshid
The entrance of the complex is formed by a two-ramp
stairway composed of 110 rather wide and short steps.
On top of the stairways is the main entrance or “The
Great Gate”, marked by two statues of a bull with a
human head and a pair of wings. There are two exits,
one to the south and the other to the east. The south
exit or gate connects to the
Archaeological evidence shows the earliest remains of
Persepolis date from around 515 BCE believed that it
was Cyrus the Great who chose the site of Persepolis,
but it was Darius the Great who built the terrace and
the great palaces The main characteristic of
Persepolitan architecture is its columns, which were
made of wood Only when even the largest cedars of
Lebanon or the teak trees of India did not fulfill the
required sizes did the architects resort to stone. The
bases and the capitals were always of stones, even on
wooden shafts, but the existence of wooden capitals is
probable. The buildings at
three areas; military quarters, the treasury and the
reception and occasional houses for the King of Kings.
These included the Great Stairway, the Gate of Nations
(Xerxes), the Apadana palace of Darius, the Hall of a
Hundred Columns, the Tripylon Hall and Tachara palace
of Darius, the Hadish palace of Xerxes, the palace of
Artaxerxes III, the Imperial Treasury, the Royal
Stables and the Chariot house. Gray limestone was the main material
used in building
Whether one thinks of
The smell of musk abounds there from friend and companion
"Ferdowsi"
The plateau of Iran is among the oldest civilization centers in the history of humanity and has an important place in archeological studies. The history of settlement in the Plateau of Iran, from the new Stone Age until the migration of Aryans to this region, is not yet very clear. However, there is reliable evidence indicating that
Aryan, (Proto-Iranian) tribes arrived in the Iranian plateau in the third and second millennium BCE, probably in more than one wave of migration. Further separation (due to migration) of Proto-Iranians, into an "Eastern" and a "Western" group, is attested in the form of Avestan, an Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of Zoroastrian Avesta. Moreover, Old Persian, which appears primarily in the inscriptions, clay tablets, seals of the Achaemenid era.
Nomadic Iranian tribes settled across the Iranian plateau and by the 1st millennium BCE, Medes, Persians, Bactrian and Parthian populated the western part, while Cimmerians, Sarmatians and Alans populated the steppes north of the Black Sea. The Iranian Pashtuns and Baloch began to settle on the eastern edge, on the mountainous frontier of northwestern India and in to what is now Balochistan. Others, such as the Scythian tribes spread as far west as the Balkans and as far east as Xinjiang.
Under Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great, the
The rules and ethics emanating from Zorasters teachings were strictly followed by the Achaemenids who introduced and adopted policies based on human rights, equality and banning of slavery. Zoroastrianism spread unimposed during the time of the Achaemenids and through contacts with the exiled Jewish people in Babylon freed by Cyrus, Zoroastrian concepts further propagated and influenced into other Abrahamic religions. The Golden Age of Athens marked by Aristotle, Plato and Socrates also came about during the Achaemenid period while their contacts with
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