Gallery
Eighteen images from museums and the public-domain Wikimedia Commons archive — every image used elsewhere on this site, gathered into one room.
Apadana of Persepolis
The eastern stairway of the Apadana audience hall (c. 515 BCE), Achaemenid ceremonial capital.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Tomb of Cyrus the Great
Pasargadae, c. 530 BCE. UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Cyrus Cylinder
Akkadian cuneiform proclamation of 539 BCE. British Museum, London.
Credit: British Museum / Wikimedia Commons
Frieze of Royal Guards
Glazed bricks from Darius I's palace at Susa, now in the Louvre.
Credit: Louvre Museum / Wikimedia Commons
Parthian Nobleman of Shami
Bronze statue, 1st century CE. National Museum of Iran.
Credit: National Museum of Iran / Wikimedia Commons
Taq Kasra
Sasanian iwan at Ctesiphon (c. 540 CE), the largest unreinforced brick vault of antiquity.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Achaemenid Empire at its greatest extent
Map showing the satrapies, c. 500 BCE.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Isfahan, designed under Shah Abbas I (c. 1602). UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
Interior dome, Isfahan (1603–1619).
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Nasir al-Mulk Mosque
Shiraz (1888) — the 'Pink Mosque' in early-morning light.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Tomb of Hafez
Hafezieh, Shiraz, rebuilt by André Godard in 1935.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Ferdowsi
Statue of the author of the Shahnameh, at his mausoleum in Tus.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Omar Khayyam
Statue at Khayyam's mausoleum, Nishapur.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
al-Khwārizmī
Statue of the founder of algebra, Khiva.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Avicenna
Soviet commemorative stamp (1980) for the millennium of Ibn Sīnā's birth.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Rumi
Manuscript portrait of Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273).
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Haft-Sin Table
Traditional Nowruz spread of seven symbolic items beginning with the letter sīn.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Tehran Skyline
The capital beneath the Alborz, with the Milad Tower (435 m).
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
References
- ↗ Wikimedia Commons — Category: Iran
- ↗ British Museum — Iran collection
- ↗ Louvre — Near Eastern Antiquities collection
- ↗ Met Museum — Iranian art
- ↗ National Museum of Iran (Wikipedia)
All imagery is sourced from Wikimedia Commons, public-domain museum collections (British Museum, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of Iran), or UNESCO World Heritage records. No AI-generated images are used. Scholarly text is synthesized from Encyclopædia Iranica, the Cambridge History of Iran, and peer-reviewed publications.