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Cyrus II the Great, son of Cambyses I, ruled from c. 550 - 530 BC. Cambyses II, his son, ruled 530 - 521 BC. Smerdis, his alleged brother, ruled 521 BC. Darius the Great, his brother-in-law and grandson of Arsames, ruled 521 -486 BC. Xerxes I, his son, ruled 486 - 465 BC. Artaxerxes I, his son, ruled 464 - 424 BC.
The Iranian dominance collapsed in 330 BC following the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander the Great, but reemerged shortly after through the establishment of the Parthian Empire in 247 BC, which was founded by a group of ancient Iranian people rising from Parthia. Until the Parthian era, Iranian identity had an ethnic, linguistic ...
The Medes [N 1] ( / miːdz /; Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎭 Māda-; Akkadian: mat Mādāya, mat Mātāya; [2] Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι Mēdoi; Latin: Medi) were an ancient Iranian people [N 2] who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the ...
v. t. e. The Iranian peoples [1] or Iranic peoples [2] are a diverse grouping of peoples [1] [3] who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.
Art. Iran has one of the oldest, richest and most influential art heritages in the world which encompasses many disciplines including literature, music, dance, architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking, embroidery and stonemasonry. Intricate stone art of Persepolis. Iranian art has gone through numerous phases, which ...
Persian clothing. Traditional Persian clothing is the historical costume of the Persian people, and of ancient Persia (now Iran) before the 1930s Pahlavi dynasty. Historically, the fabric and color of clothing was very important. [1] During the Achaemenian period (550–330 BC), Persian clothing started to reflect social status and eminence ...
Map 7: Scythian cultures of Scythian, Sarmatians and Saka Iranian peoples located in the Western Eurasian steppe ( Central Asia and Europe) from ca. 900 BC - 200 AD. Map 8: Dahae tribal confederation. Map 9: Roxolani, Siraces and Aorsi in the 4th century BC. Map 10: Alan migrations in the context of the Migration Period.
Cultural depictions of ancient Persian people (4 C, 2 P) I. Images of Iranian people (3 F) M. Cultural depictions of Iranian men (1 C)