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Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Proto-Elamite and Elamite kingdom in 3200-2800 BCE.
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Eram Garden, a historic Persian garden in Shiraz World Heritage Site
Qavam House (also widely called "Narenjestan e Ghavam") is a traditional and historical house in Shiraz, built between 1879 and 1886 by Mirza Ibrahim Khan.
Bagh-e Naranjestan is Shiraz’s smallest garden and is famous as the setting for the opulently decorated Naranjestan-e Ghavam pavilion
Naranjestan-e Ghavam pavilion Ornamental ceiling Mirror mosaic room
Footnotes 'I'm from KashanA painter by tradeSometimes I build a cage with paint and sell it to youSo that with the song of the poppy imprisoned withinThe heart of your loneliness may be refreshed'From: The Sound Water's Footsteps, first published in 1965, translated M.R. Daraie, 2009 SohrabSepehri (Iran, 1928-1980) Untitled, US$ 120,000 (auction Bonhams 2009)
Woman with a Spray of Flowers, painted in Iran, c.1575 Smithsonian Museum Fresco is Chehel Sotoun Palace, Isfahan
Fragment from To the Promised Garden, an epic poem by Sohrab Sepehri (Iran, 1928-1980), first published in 1967 And thenTell me about the bombs that fell when I was sleepingTell me about the tears that fell when I was sleepingTell me how many doves fled from the trees ......And thenAs if an evergreen tree of faithI will plant you at the gate of the Promised Garden(transl. M.R. Daraie, 2009) Mehrdad Jamshidi (Iranian Realist painter, 1970)
Three piece gold heraldic lions from Achaemenid Persia, dated to 400 BC
Jewel-Studded Globe of Iran (Approximately 35 kg of pure gold is used) Achaemenid silver bowl raised upon a conical foot
Parthian Rhyton (150 BC-AD 225), Iran Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Parthian Rhyton (150 BC-AD 225), Iran Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Rhyton from the Panagyurishte Golden Treasure Plovdiv Museum
Iranian silver griffin shaped rhyton 7th c. BC that was confiscated by Customs America
Achaemenid silver rhyton goblet in the form of a kneeling ram
Persian rhyton (drinking vessel) from the Achaemenid period, c.5th century BC Rhyton with horned ram 538-331 BCE Seattle Art Museum
Rhyton in the form of a centaur - Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 3rd - 2nd century BC (300 - 101 BC)
Achaemenid Goblet Сollection of the Reza Abbasi Museum, Tehran Achaemenid Silver Rhyton in the Form of a Buck Protome
Achaemenid Goblet Сollection of the Reza Abbasi Museum, Tehran
Cup with a frieze of gazelles; ca. early 1st millennium B.C. Northwestern Iran – Metropolitan Museum of Art