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Rock art in Iran includes archaeological petroglyphs, or carving in rock; pictographs, or painting on rock; and rock reliefs. Large numbers of prehistoric rock art, more than 50,000, have been discovered in Iran. [citation needed] Dating back to 7000 years before present in Iran, rock art is the oldest surviving artwork.
The Anubanini petroglyph, also called Sar-e Pol-e Zohab II [1] or Sarpol-i Zohab relief, [2] is a rock relief from the Akkadian Empire period (circa 2300 BC) or the Isin-Larsa period (early second millennium BC) and is located in Kermanshah Province, Iran.
Naqsh-e Rostam (lit. ' mural of Rostam '; Persian: نقش رستم, Persian: [ˌnæɣʃeɾosˈtæm]) is an ancient archeological site and necropolis located about 13 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars province, Iran.
European petroglyphs: Laxe dos carballos in Campo Lameiro, Galicia, Spain (4th–2nd millennium BCE), depicting cup and ring marks and deer hunting scenes Petroglyph of a camel; Negev, southern Israel. Petroglyphs of the archaeological site of Las Labradas, situated on the coast of the municipality of San Ignacio (Mexican state of Sinaloa)
Iranian rock art sites are mostly found in the Zagros Mountain range. But there are many other sites in Central Iran, Sistan and Baluchistan, and Azarbaijan. Most of these rock arts date back to the late prehistory and historic period. Among which the well-known sites of Houmian at Kuhdasht, [61] Khomein, and Teimareh [62] in Central Iran are ...
The petroglyphs are etched into lava rocks from cliffs formed millions of years ago and provide a glimpse thousands of years into the past. Yellowstone, petrified watermelon, rock art: These ...
The Iranian nobility and the tributary parts of the empire came to present gifts to the king, as represented in the stairway reliefs. It is also unclear what permanent structures there were outside the palace complex; it may be better to think of Persepolis as only one complex rather than a "city" in the usual sense.
More than 1000 inscriptions and 700 petroglyphs can be found at the Shatial bridge on the Indus River. Iranian merchants left behind over 550 inscriptions dating from third to seventh centuries in the Sogdian language , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] nine in the extinct Bactrian language , and two in Middle Persian and Parthian each. [ 4 ]