The Physical Sciences

• Origins of Chemistry Discovery of how to Transform Nalachite to Copper in Ancient Persia (Book Citation)
• Professors Morteza Momenzadeh & Tahereh Sadighi. Place Names: A Guide in Detecting Ancient Gold Mines in Iran (pdf). Proceedings of the International Symposium, Old World Archaeometallurgy, Heidelberg, 1987. Heidelberg. Consult Professor Momenzadeh’s website (www.momenzadeh.com) for more information on the archaeometallurgy of Iran.
• The Quest for Knowledge in Ancient Iran. By Parviz Shahriari originally posted in CAIS website.

Applied Sciences, Engineering & Technology

• Ancient Ruler discovered ar Burnt City
• Moving Big Blocks: The example of Stonehedge
• Professor H. E. Wulff: The Aqueducts of Iran
• World’s first example of Pictorial animation
• Achaemenid Engineers knew of the value of Pi
• The Parthian Battery - باطری اشکانی: يک ميراث فراموش شده ی ايرانی-
• Sassanian Engineers & De-Humidifier Systems
• Professor S. Roaf: Badgir (Iran’s Ancient Air Conditioning System)
• -مجیدی مفیدی شیروانی -مهناز محمودی شیروانی،-هویت ایرانی بادگیر و پیشینه آن در معماری ایران- Mahnaz Mahmoodi & Majid Mofidi Shirvani (2009). The Iranian idenity of the Badgir and its origins in Iranian architecture. Nashriye Hoveyate Shahr [The Journal of City Identity], Number 2, pp. 25-33. (pdf) (in Persian)
• An 18th Century Persian Astrolabe
• -بررسی معماری و کارکرد یخچالهای مصنوعی در تهران قدیم-an overview of the workings of artificial refrigeration systems in old Tehran (Part One)-see also Part Two and Part Thrree
• The Ice Houses of Iran

Medicine

• The World’s Oldest known Artificial Eye
• The Shahrbaraz Blog: Medicine in Sassanian Persia (in Persian) -پزشکی در زمان ساسانیان  -
• Press TV: The History of Medicine in Ancient Persia
• Jalal Pourahmad: History of Medical Sciences in Iran (journal article in pdf)
• Seyed Mahmood Tabatabaei, AbdolJalil Kalantar-Hormozi, Mohsen Asadi (2011). Razi’s Description & Treatment of Facial Paralysis. Archives of Iranian Medicine, 14 (1), 73 – 75.
• -پزشکی و تخصص های پزشکان در ایران باستان (با تکیه بر دینکرد و اوستا) / فرشته آهنگری -Fereshteh Ahangari: Medicine and Specialties of Physicians in Ancient Persia (in reference to the Denkard and the Avesta)   (pdf)

The Jundi-Shapur Medical School

• Gail Marlow Taylor (University of California, Irvine): Physicians of Jundishapur (pdf-posted in e‐Sasanika 11,  2010) - -پزشکان گندی شاپور/ گیل مارلو تیلور -Persian translation in pdf.
• Professor Lutz Richter-Bernburg: Gondi-Shapur History & Medical School

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

• Encyclopedia Brittanica: Avicemna (in pdf)

Transmission of Knowledge

• De Lacy O’Leary (2001). How Greek Science passed to the Arabs. Routledge. (book in pdf)

A Video Tribute to Iran’s Ancient legacy of Learning, Science and Technology

• Science and Technology in Iran before and after Islam (3 videos by Tara Farhid-Gallo).