Sassanian Era
Sassanian Empire in Maps
Sassanian Architecture & Sites
- Master Builders: Influence of Sassanid Architecture Reached far Beyond their Borders - translation in Persian تاثیرات معماری ساسانیان بسیار فراتر از مرزهایشان بود (pdf).
- Hessamoddin Shadeian: Sassanian Architecture and Castles-کاخهای ساسانیان-
Ctesiphon-تيسفون-
- Ctesiphon: Capital city of the Sassanians
- Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران-Ctesiphon-تيسفون-
Wall of Gorgan -ديوار گرگان–
- The Great Wall of Gorgan--دیوار بزرگ گرگان- Synopsis of Kaveh Farrokh report also printed in Tehran Times International Daily March 9 2010- The Great Wall of Gorgan (pdf) – see also Secrets of the Red Snake: The Great Wall of Iran Revealed, in Current World Archaeology Today, No. 27, 2008 (pdf) -
- Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران- Wall of Gorgan-ديوار گرگان -
Firuzabad-فيروز آباد-
- Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران-Firuzabad-فيروز آباد-
Takht e Soleiman (Shiz)-تخت سليمان-
- Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران-Takht e Soleiman-تخت سليمان-
Kangavar
- The Temple of Anahita at Kangavar - by S. Amiraparian (in Persian)
The Castle of Sarvistan-كاخ سروستان -
- Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران-The Castle of Sarvistan-كاخ سروستان -
Darabgird
Sassanian Vaults
For Sassanian Architectural and Artistic Legacy on Islamic Civilization see Iran’s Legacy in Islamic and Arabian Civilizations
Sassanian Music and Culture
- -سازهای دوره ساسانی به موزه موسیقی اهدا شد- Reconstructions of Sassanian Musical Instruments donated to Museums (in Persian)
Drafsh e Kaviani
- The Drafsh Kaviani Emblem and its connections to the European-Gothic Cross
- Millemiun (Czech Website): History of the Derafsh Kavian (esp. discussion in relation to early Moravian history)
Persis before the rise of the Sassanians
- -دودمان های پارس/ نوشته: صابر امیری پریان-S. Amiraparian: Dynasties of Persis in the pre-Sassanian period (pdf) (in Persian). Note the depiction of the Drafsh e Kaviani on Sassanian coins on pages 10-11 (for more on Iranian banners and flags see The Lion and the Sun Motif of Iran: A brief Analysis and its Persian translation بررسی اجمالی نشان شیر و خورشید ایران (pdf))..
- Sassanian Coins from Pars province - by S. Amiraparian (in Persian)
The Early to Middle Era Sassanians
- David Whitehouse and Andrew Williamson (1973). Sasanian Maritime Trade. Iran, Vol. 11, pp. 29-49. (pdf)
- Bahram Roshan Zamir: -شاهنشاهی ساسانیان از اردشیر بابکان تا قباد- (The Sassanian Dynasty from Ardashir I Babakan to Kavad) (in Persian) (pdf)
- An Analysis of the History of Iran (Part Six): The Sassanian Monarchy -شاهنشاهی ساسانی (in Persian) (pdf)
Roman views of the Sassanians
- Scott McDonough (2011). Were the Sasanians Barbarians? Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World: Cultural Interaction and the Creation of Identity in Late Antiquity (Edited by R. Mathisen & D. Shanzer), Chapter 4, Ashagte Publishing Limited, pp. 55-65. (pdf)
- Jan Willem Drijvers (2011), A Roman Image of the “Barbarian” Sasanians. Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World: Cultural Interaction and the Creation of Identity in Late Antiquity (Edited by R. Mathisen & D. Shanzer), Chapter 5, Ashagte Publishing Limited, pp. 67-76. (pdf)
The Late Sassanians
- Professor Abdol-Hussein Zarrinkoub’s book “Two Centuries of Silence” (in Persian) which outlines the consequences of Arab Caliphate rule in Iran during the first two centuries after the overthrow of the Sassanian Empire -دو قرن سکوت/ عبدالحسین زرین کوب -(download in pdf)
- Professor Marie Louise Chaumont: Queen Boran
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Bahram Roshan Zamir: -شاهنشاهی ساسانیان از خسرو انوشه روان دادگر تا یزدگرد سوم-فروپاشی ساسانیان - (The Sassanian Dynasty from Khosrow Anushirvan to Yazdegird III-Fall of the Sassanians) (in Persian) ((pdf)
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Faking Yazdegird’s Letter to Omar Khattab: Anti-Arab Forgery- by Khodadad Rezakhani in Iranian.com
- -پژوهش و ترجمه: آزاده احسانی چمبلی-نامههای گنجینه پاپیروسهای کتابخانه ملی اتریش از چگونگی مبارزه های عربها میگویند -Azadeh Ehsani Jaabali: Letters in the archives of the Austrian national Library that highlight the role of the Arab conquests of Iran
- -وقف: نهادی ایرانی -Legal Sassanian treatise of the 3rd Century AD
- -ساسانیان در آفریقا-Sassanians in Africa (in Persian)
The Works of Parvaneh Pourshariati on the Fall of Sassanians
- Hessamoddin Shafeian: -پروفسور پروانه پور شریعتی: یک ایران شناس برجسته و متفاوت-Dr. Parvaneh Pourshariati: A Professor and Iranologist unlike the Rest (in Persian)
- -سقوط ساسانیان، «ماحصل اختلافات داخلی–The Fall of the Sassanians: the role of internal conflicts
- -پاسخهای پروانه پورشریعتی به پرسشهای کاربران رادیو فردا در مورد زوال ساسانیان-Responses by Parvaneh Pourshariati to Radio Farda regarding reasons for the fall of the Sassanians
- From Parvaneh Pourshariati’s 2008 text - See Foreword (translated to Persian) by Khashayar Rokhasani -پیشگفتار: خشایار رُخسانی -; See first chapter (translated to Persian) -نشیب و فروپاشی فرمانروایی ساسانی- (pdf).
- Interviews of the “Peyk e Farhang” program of Radio Farda with Parvaneh Pourshariati (MP3): Part 1 and Part 2.
Recommended Readings
- Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter (2007). Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbors and Rivals. Cambridge University Press (pdf).
- Parvaneh Pourshariati (2008). Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (International Library of Irani. I. B. Tauri (pdf) (Order at Amazon). -دکتر پروانه پورشریعتی-برگردان: خشایار رُخسانی–نشیب و فروپاشی فرمانروایی ساسانی- (pdf).
Links & Resources
- Sasanika: History and Culture of the Sasanians – UC Irvine School of Humanities
- Cultural Heritage News Agency of Iran -خبرگزاري ميراث فرهنگي-
Contemporary Artists Reviving the Sassanians
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