darabgird is one of the ancient cities in fars province. according to iranian mythology, darab shah (dariush, the great) found the city in the achaemenid period. but, due to the fact that 1.21% of total ceramics gathered from the city belongs to the parthian era, we can accept that the city remained in use since parthian period to the islamic era. data analysis shows that the city had a strong...

Since the Sassanid era, many reliefs and seals have left and by reviewing their designs, the mythical and religious attitudes of those people can be understood. The purpose of this article is to decode and interpret the symbolic paintings and to review and study the myths, concepts, and religious rituals of this period. The question is that what the divine and human origin of the symbolic paint...

present paper is the second publication introducing the paleoparasitological findings from animal coprolites obtained from archeological site of chehrabad salt mine in northwest-ern iran. the current archeological site is located in northwest of iran , dated to the sas-sanian era (4 th /5 th century ce).in the summer 2012 the carnivore coprolite was obtained within the layers in the mine and we...

in the face of strategic and geopolitical importance of nishapur, this city was not much taken into consideration by the archeologists of the historic period. the analysis of the new findings of the ancient castle of sasanian nishapur as well as the identification of some sasanian settlements in the plain of nishapur can make it possible to re-configure the eco-political structures of the commu...