🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Great Wall of Gorgan
The Great Wall of Gorgan is a Sasanian-era defense system located near modern Gorgan in the Golestān Province of northeastern Iran, at the southeastern corner of the Caspian Sea.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Hamun Lake
Lake Hāmūn (Persian: دریاچه هامون, Daryāche-ye Hāmūn; Pashto: هامون ډنډ), or the Hamoun Oasis, is a seasonal lake and wetlands in the endorheic Sīstān Basin in the Sistan region on the…
🇮🇷 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 · Archaeological wonder
Amol
Amol (Persian: آمل [ɒˈmol]; ) is a city in the Central District of Amol County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Bardak Siah Palace
Bardak Siah Palace (Persian: کاخ بردکسیاه) is the name of the site of an ancient Achaemenid Persian palace situated in the ancient city of Temukan near the township of Borazjan in the northern part…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Anshan (Persia)
Anshan (Elamite cuneiform: 𒀭𒍝𒀭 Anzan; Sumerian: 𒀭𒊓𒀭𒆠 Ansanᴷᴵ, 𒀭𒊭𒀭𒆠 Anšanᴷᴵ) modern Tall-e Malyan (Persian: تل ملیان), also Tall-i Malyan, was an Elamite and ancient Persian city.
🇮🇷 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 · Ancient city
Bābā Jān Tepe
Bābā Jān Tepe (Tappa), an archeological site in north-eastern Lorestan province (34° north latitude, 47° 56' east longitude), on the southern edge of the Delfān plain at approximately 10 km from…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Darband Cave
Darband Cave is a Lower Paleolithic site in the Gilan Province in northern Iran, located on the north side of a deep tributary canyon of the Siahrud River, a tributary of the Sefīd-Rūd River that…
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Firuzabad (Ardashir Dam) — Firuzabad Plain reservoir dam, Fars
Early Sassanid (Ardashir I–Shapur I, 224–260 CE) · Sassanid Persian (early Sasanian court)
210-m Sassanid reservoir dam (224 CE) retaining Firuzabad circular capital plain — Ardashir's desert hydraulic foundation.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Mizan Dam – Shushtar Hydraulic Node
Achaemenid to Sasanian · Achaemenid / Sasanian (with Roman prisoners)
390-m Karun diversion weir (5th c BCE /260 CE) — head of Shushtar mills system.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Farhād Tarāsh
The Farhād Tarāsh (Persian: فرهاد تراش), or Tarāsh-e Farhād, is a long smoothed rock surface on Mount Behistun in western Iran.
🇮🇷 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 · Ancient city
Geoy Tepe
Geoy Tepe (also Gök Tepe) is an archaeological site in northwestern Iran, about 7 kilometers south of Urmia (Reżāʾīya), Gug Tappeh.
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Gerdkooh Hills
Gerdkooh ancient hills (Persian: تپه باستان گردکوه) consists of three hills, the tallest of which is 26 m in height. Their history has been estimated to date back to the Iron Age.
🇮🇷 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
Barm-e Delak
Barm-e Delak (Persian: برمدلک), is a site of a Sasanian rock relief located about 10 km southeast of Shiraz, in the Fars province of Iran.
🇮🇷 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.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Harireh
Harireh is an ancient 8th century city located in what is now Kish, Iran. It is situated in the center of the northern coast of the island. Its area is about 3 square kilometres (1.2 sq mi).
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Ribat-i Sharaf
caravanserai in Sarakhs County, Iranian national heritage site and World heritage site
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Two domes of Kukherd
mausoleum tower in Kukherdharang, Iranian national heritage site
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Sorkh Deh chamber tomb
tomb in Kermanshah Province, Iranian national heritage site