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2. Achaemenid Vessel Handle Iran, 4th c. BCE It is made of Silver, partially Gold and the Original Size is 27 x 15 x 10 cm Musée du Louvre

3. Musée du Louvre

4. Isfahan Shah Abbasi Hotel

5. Isfahan Hammam-e Ali Gholi Agha water-tab Kashan Khan historical bathroom

6. Kashan Imamzadeh Helal Ibn Ali ©Afshin Bakhtiar Badrud Imamzadeh Agha Ali Abbas ©mojtaba akbari

7. Kashan Emamzadeh Ebrahim Tomb

8. Old bazaar in the center of the city of Kashan The most stunning feature of the bazaar is its absolutely stunning ceiling

9. Kashan bazaar has a famous architecture, especially at its Timche-ye Amin od-Dowleh section, where a grand light well was built in the 19th century.

10. The bazaar is still in use and is a few miles in total length. In the bazaar's complex beside the main bazaars, there are several mosques, tombs, caravanserais, arcades, baths, and water reservoirs that each were constructed in a different period.

11. Ceiling of the old bazaar in the center of the city of Kashan

12. Kerman Bagh-e-Shahzdeh (meaning Prince’s Garden)

13. Kerman Bagh-e-Shahzdeh

14. Kerman Bagh-e-Shahzdeh

15. Star-shaped tile with camel Shrine of Habakkuk in Toyserkan

16. Maragha Gunbad-i Qabud, 12century

17. Maragha Gunbad-i Qabud, 12century ©Prof. Richard T. Mortel

18. Maragha Statue of Anahita Statue of Anahita by Raheleh Filsoofi

19. Maragha Statue of Anahita

20. Anahita

21. 4th-6th century silver and gilt Sassanian vessel, assumed to be depicting Anahita Cleveland Museum of Art Anahita Dish, 400-600 AD, Sasanian dynasty, silver and gilt Cleveland Museum of Art

22. Sassanian vessel Simorq Persian Mythical Bird and Anahita on Simorq's back, flies the skies of Persia Achemid Stone Capital from Darius I`s palace at Susa Musée du Louvre

23. It is typical of Achaemenid art in combining elements taken from different civilizations to form a coherent stylistic ensemble This colossal capital from one of the thirty-six monumental columns which supported the roof of the apadana at Susa is evidence of an architectural tradition purely Iranian

24. Achemid Stone Capital with Kneeling Bull Protomes and double volutes from Apadana (reception hall) of Darius I, Susa Musée du Louvre

25. Frieze of Lions from Darius I`s palace at Susa Musée du Louvre

26. Frieze of Archers from Darius I`s palace at Susa Musée du Louvre Darius I "the Great" (549- 486 BCE) was a king of Persia who ruled for 35 years

27. Frieze of Archers from Darius I`s palace at Susa Musée du Louvre Persian Griffin from Darius I`s palace at Susa

28. Glazed brick come from the palace of Darius I at Susa Musée du Louvre

29. Homa Persian Mythical Bird Persepolis

30. Persepolis was the capital of the mighty ancient Persian Empire. It was a beautiful city, adorned with precious artworks of which unfortunately very little survives today. When Alexander the Great conquered the city, he gave orders to the Macedonians to destroy it, in the similar fashion as they had already done in with Thebes when Greece was conquered. The palace of the Persian Achaemenid kings was burned, the city was looted and its citizens massacred, in one of the most brutal and savage acts in history PersianHorsefromPersepolis

31. Most of the sculptures were also destroyed and what remains is very little that still testifies of the great artistic abilities of the ancient Persians. The Persian Horse is one such proof of the greatness of the ancient Persian art. This is a hand carved sculpture of an ancient Persian horse, one of the many that once decorated the palaces of the Persian "kings of the kings". It was first carved in clay, and then it was produced in cast stone. Sassanid era horse head found in Kerman Musée du Louvre

33. The Shapur Plate was produced during the fourth century CE for Shapur II, the Sasanian king Smithsonian Museum Sassanian Silver Gilt Plate The Miho Museum Kyoto, Japan

34. Sasanian plate with king hunting rams - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

36. Isfahan A banquet of song and dance Hasht Behesht palace

39. Isfahan, Painted muqarnas ceiling, Hasht Behesht (Eight Paradises)

40. Kermanshah The mourning place and Hossainieh of Moavenol Molk (Tekiyeye Moavenol Molk)

41. Kermanshah Ahuramazda, ceramic panels from the Tekkieh of Mo'aven ol-Molk, the mourning place and Hossainieh of Moavenol Molk

42. IsfahanMinaret,IranphotofromNationalGeographicMagazine1958

43. MashhadImamRezashrine

44. MashhadImamRezashrine

45. Tehran ornate inscription inside the women's mosque, in the heart of the Grand Bazaar

46. Arg-é Bam (Bam Citadel) in Bam, Iran, built before 500BC

47. Text and pictures: Internet Copyright: All the images belong to their authors Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda Sound: Parisa - Tasnif, Avaz & Saz