Chronologie de Sasanian

4200 av. J.-C. – 1221 apr. J.-C. · 5 sites

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Iran

Susa

4200 av. J.-C. – 1218 apr. J.-C.

Ancient Susa, among the world's oldest cities, flourished from 4200 BCE as the Elamite lowland capital and later a ceremonial Achaemenid center, yielding treasures like the Code of Hammurabi stele.

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The Achaemenid rock-cut tombs and Sasanian reliefs at Naqsh-e Rostam, Iran

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Oldest Necropolis in Asia

Naqsh-e Rostam

520 av. J.-C. – 300 apr. J.-C.

A towering cliff near Persepolis in Iran carved with the rock-cut tombs of four Achaemenid "Great Kings," including Darius the Great, set above a series of monumental reliefs added centuries later by the Sasanian dynasty. Together they compress over a thousand years of Persian imperial art into a single rock face.

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Earthen walls and ruins of the ancient city complex of Merv, Turkmenistan

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Ancient Merv

500 av. J.-C. – 1221 apr. J.-C.

One of the greatest oasis cities of Central Asia — successive walled cities of Margiana on the Murghab delta in present-day Turkmenistan, bridging Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sasanian, and Islamic Silk Road empires until Mongol destruction in 1221.

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The brick vault of Taq Kasra, the great ayvān of Ctesiphon, Iraq

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Known by the Most Names in Iraq

Ctesiphon

129 av. J.-C. – 637 apr. J.-C.

The Parthian and Sasanian capital on the Tigris south of Baghdad — celebrated for the colossal brick vault of Taq Kasra — is among the most searched late-antique archaeological sites and the administrative twin of Seleucia on the opposite bank.

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Derbent

600 av. J.-C. – 700 apr. J.-C.

Ancient Caspian fortress city with monumental Sasanian walls controlling strategic passage between mountains and sea, continuously inhabited since the mid-first millennium BCE.

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