Today the city of Ḫarrān/Carrhae is mainly known for famous battle, in which Roman general Crassus was defeated by a Parthian army 53 BCE. However, Ḫarrān also one most important religious centres North Mesopotamia. Since Bronze Age, moon god Sîn popular wider region, and it well that late Assyrian Baby- lonian kings supported cult rebuilt temple Sîn. Archaeological evidence written sources att...

this article is aimed at investigating the cultural-artistic exchange and its influence on female costumes in the most critical part of the history; that is during the formation of the parthian kingdom in the great achaemenid’s realm after the invasion of foreigners such as alexandra and the greek. this paper also examines the causes that have lead to transformations in the type of woman's...

hundreds of stray coins are being donated every year to different iranian museums but it is difficult to establish their authenticities due to lack of knowledge about places of their findings. part of these stray metallic pieces is related to parthians. due to their lengthy rule, of about five centuries, parthian coins form important part of numismatic collection at the museums. authors have ta...

an examination of historical text and archaeological data show that mehrjanqadhaq was one of the important states of western iran which had been founded and formed in a region now known as darreshsher or more exactly in saimara valley. the history of the state goes back to parthian era. archaeological data in confirmation of historical texts both indicate settlement sequence form parthian era t...