“A total of 594 objects including stone, metal and copper coins, gold plates and metal objects as well as two metal detectors were discovered from a smuggler’s home,” a local police commander said on ...

The relief, which depicts a Parthian soldier in the act of shooting an arrow with a quiver strapped to his back, is the sole surviving Parthian carving in the region. The relatively massive relief is ...

At its height in the second century BC, the Parthian Empire stretched from the Persian Gulf, along Mesopotamia and held sway over Indus kingdoms. One of the empire’s royal capitals was the city of ...

Waterfall with main staircase and boulevard, in the fortress. Credit: Rabana-Merquly Archaeological Project The ancient mountain settlement of Rabana-Merquly, situated in present-day Iraqi Kurdistan, ...

TEHRAN, May 14: Archaeologists at a dig on a farm in western Iran have uncovered a skeleton with a solid gold mask in a bronze coffin in what could be the first of a fresh wave of Parthian-era ...

A recent discovery reportedly proves thesis of neutrality. Turkmen scholar: the Parthian Empire was the first state in world history with a legally fixed neutral status. The Berdymukhamedov family ...

The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly in modern Iraqi Kurdistan was one of the major regional centers of the Parthian Empire, which extended over parts of Iran and Mesopotamia approximately 2,000 ...

A pair of rock reliefs found at Rabana-Merquly may depict Natounissar, an ancient Adiabene king linked to the lost city of Natounia. © Rabana-Merquly Archaeological ...