.priscianus of lydia’s solutionum ad chosroem is a series of answers to questions asked at a philosophical debate held at the sasanian court c. 530 ce. priscianus of lydia was one of seven non-christian philosophers from the byzantine empire who journeyed to the sasanian empire to take part in the debate. long overlooked in the history of philosophy, priscianus of lydia’s text represents a bran...

Iranians invented squinches to cover a square-plan space with dome. Filposh, type of squinch first found in Sasanian architecture, is conical vault constructed the transition zone’s corners transmit dome’s forces and weight. This technique can be seen three halls palace Ardeshir. In this paper, geometry zone using filposh between spherical dome square supporting walls Ardeshir Palace was re-exa...

The second season of the archaeological survey of Qeshm Island was conducted during the winter of 2012, during which the team identified a total of 138 sites. The preliminary analysis of the ceramic assemblage from these sites suggests that 5 sites date to the 3rd millennium B.C.(Bronze Age) and represent the earliest in the directory. The remainder includes 3 Iron Age, 4 Achaemenid, 23 Parthia...

The archaeological campaign of the 16th season of excavations in Tepe Hegmataneh intended to explore the architecturalstructures belonging to the historical period. The excavated area consists of 4 squares including AJ45, AJ46, AK45,and AK46 with a total size of 400 m2 . Excavations in these squares recorded 55, 54, 105, and 116 loci respectively.The architecture belonging to the historical per...

the iranian-islamic sources have testified to the importance of gundishapour as the largest scientific center, having a medical school and one of the largest hospitals of ancient world in which renown physicians and the scholars of age, from various nationalities, were employed to teach, to do research, and to treat patients. in this scientific centre, greek medicine linked with indian medicine...

in this article, i tried to study the influence of sasanid simurgh on the islamic and western art. the immigration of this mystic (simurgh) started from the sasanid period and continued after the fall of sasanid by the arabic invasion. this deportation happened through the cultural and commercial exchanges, and the imperial presents sent to the other empires by sasanid kings. sasanid simurgh is...