Oriental Institute Photographic Archives This collection includes all the spectacular aerial photographs of ancient sites in Iran taken by Ernst Herzfeld between 1935 and 1937. The next four maps were ...

Valerian’s Palace, which was once a residence for the captivated Roman Emperor during Sassanid era, in Bishapur, southern ...

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historic ... and Media (modern-day western Iran) pillaged and burned the temple as the Assyrian Empire collapsed at the hands of its ...