The Scythian
Centered on what is now the Crimea, the Scythians founded a rich, powerful empire that survived for several centuries before succumbing to the Sarmatians during the 4th century BC to the 2nd century AD. Much of what is known of the history of the Scythians comes from...
Seleucid Dynasty
(312–64 BC), an ancient empire that at its greatest extent stretched from Thrace in Europe to the border of India. It was carved out of the remains of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian empire by its founder, Seleucus I Nicator. Seleucus, one of Alexander’s leading...
Seljuq Dynasty
ruling military family of the Oğuz (Ghuzz) Turkmen tribes that invaded southwestern Asia in the 11th century and eventually founded an empire that included Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and most of Iran. Their advance marked the beginning of Turkish power in the...
Saffarid Dynasty
Iranian dynasty of lower class origins that ruled a large area in eastern Iran. The dynasty’s founder, Yaʿqūb ebn Leys̄ aṣ-Ṣaffār (“the coppersmith”), took control of his native province, Seistan, around 866. By 869 he had extended his control into northeastern India,...
Sassanid
(Ad 224–651), ancient Iranian dynasty evolved by Ardashīr I in years of conquest, ad 208–224, and destroyed by the Arabs during the years 637–651. The dynasty was named after Sāsān, an ancestor of Ardashīr I. Under the leadership of Ardashīr I (reigned 224–241), the...
Ancient trade route, silk road
the silk road is the name for the trade route between the mediterranean sea and china. the silk road is named for the trade route that linked china and the west for much of the first millennium ad. This is when chinese silk was the chief commodity of exchange along a...
Iranian Food
When you go to a restaurant or an Iranian family, you can see many varieties of traditional dishes as well as modern ones on their tables. Many kinds of foods which made of grains, vegetables, nuts and meat. In the menu you can see: Chelow Kebab: It is the most famous...
Iran Handicraft
The carpet weaving industry in Iran is as old as time itself. Iran is the world’s leading carpet producer. Persian carpet with its fast colors, fine designs and unique texture, has always been the most tangible manifestation of Persian art for other nations and...
Poetry In Iran
The Persian Language The Old Persian of the Achaemenian Empire, preserved in a number of cuneiform inscriptions, was an Indo-European tongue with close affinities with Sanskrit and Avestan (the language of the Zoroastrian sacred texts). After the fall of the...
Revealing Persia Tour Operator is an Iranian travel and tourism company which is located in Iran and Europe.
