Amiri, paid a visit to the Great Wall of Gorgan on Thursday, where he inaugurated construction on the site’s first official ...

Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files / 4.7: Photo File 7: "Sasanian Architecture" / 4.7.1: Vol. 1 Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian ...

Taking the role of architecture as essential to many other forms of art, Stierlin touches on Islamic painting, calligraphy, miniature art for manuscripts, carpet weaving, and decoration in the ...

Inside, a broad stairway leads up to a rectangular hall, with blind niches on either side of two large buttresses at the east end. The fortified palace contains many of the recurring features of ...

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 ...

However, the archaeologists had not expected to find a Sasanian loom (ca. 4th-6th century AD), whose burnt remnants, and clay loom weights in particular, were found and documented in-situ.

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