Linha do tempo de Parthian

4200 a.C. – 1221 d.C. · 4 sítios

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Longest Continuously Occupied Site in Iran

Susa

4200 a.C. – 1218 d.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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Earthen walls and ruins of the ancient city complex of Merv, Turkmenistan

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Ancient Merv

500 a.C. – 1221 d.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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Hatra

100 a.C. – 241 d.C.

A Parthian caravan city in the northern Iraqi desert that withstood sieges by both Trajan and Septimius Severus — its massive circular defensive walls and hybrid Greco-Roman-Mesopotamian temples stood intact for 1,800 years until partial destruction by ISIS in 2015.

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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 a.C. – 637 d.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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