Ancient and mysterious places in Iran

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Nishapur

city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Banesh (Persian: بانش) is a village in Banesh Rural District of Banesh District, Beyza County, Fars province, Iran, serving as capital of both the district and the rural district. The village is 60 km north of Shiraz.

🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex

Jameh Mosque of Isfahan

mosque in Isfahan, Iranian national heritage site and World heritage site

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Qalaichi

important archaeological site for the Iron Age of north-western Iran

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Mithra Temple of Maragheh

grotto in Maragheh County, Iranian national heritage site

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Terenah

aqueduct in Bastak County, Iranian national heritage site

🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex

Jameh Mosque of Qerveh

mosque in Abhar County, Iranian national heritage site

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Shadiyakh

Iranian national heritage site

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Tachara

Persian Empire

palace in Persepolis, Iran

🇮🇷 Iran · Megalith

Kharg Island

Kharg Island (Persian: جزیره خارگ, Persian pronunciation: [xɒːrɡ]), also spelled Khark Island and often referred to as the "Forbidden Island", is a continental island of Iran in the Persian Gulf.

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var

The Inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var is carved on the flanks of the Zinanah Mt. in the Tang-i Var pass in Hawraman, Iranian Kurdistan, about 50 km southwest of Sanandaj.

🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex

Hafshuye Mosque

The Hafshuye Mosque (Persian: مسجد جامع هفت شویه), also known as the Jameh Mosque of Haftshuyeh, is a former Shi'ite Friday mosque, in a ruinous condition, located in Haftshuyeh, in the province of…

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Kashafrud

Kashafrud Basin (Persian: کشف‌رود) is an archaeological site in Iran, known for the Lower Palaeolithic artifacts collected there; these are the oldest-known evidence for human occupation of Iran.

🇮🇷 Iran · Necropolis

Bani Surmah

Bani Surmah is a late Sumerian necropolis, located on a plateau of Pusht-i Kuh, in the heart of central Zagros, Iran.

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Kurit Dam

The Kurit Dam (Persian: سد کریت or سد کوریت) is a decommissioned arch-gravity dam at the edge of Iran's Dasht-e Kavir. It is located 56 km away from Tabas, Iran, near the eponymous village of Kurit.

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Aamaj Castle

The Castle of Aamaj (from Arabic: قلعة آماج, (Persian: قلعه آماج), Aamaj castle is one of the most significant examples for trench-enclosed, fortified structures in the Kukherd District, Hormozgan province in south Iran.

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Khosrow Parviz hunting ground

Khosrow parviz hunting ground (Persian:شکارگاه خسرو پرویز) or Tape-ye-moradhasel or Morad-Hassel Tepe (Persian:تپه مرادحاصل) is an ancient Sasanid complex in the north of Kermanshah city in western Iran.