As I said in this thread Rock-cut and Cave Architecture (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1450889), there about 50,000 historical monuments from different nations on Zagros Mountains.

From the ancient Chinese Lung Dragons:

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Lung1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Lung2.jpg

To the ancient Greek Heracles:

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Hercul2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Hercul1.jpg

I will post some more pics about these monuments in this thread.

All pics are on www.allempires.com.

Teimareh

With more than 21,000 discovered petroglyphs from 40,000 years ago.

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Teimareh/Timareh1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Teimareh/Timareh2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Teimareh/Timareh3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Teimareh/Timareh4.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Teimareh/Timareh5.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Teimareh/Timareh6.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Teimareh/Timareh7.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Teimareh/Timareh8.jpg

Ayapir

The world's largest ancient rock relief museum, from 20th century B.C.

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/AyapirL2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/AyapirL1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir21.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir22.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir19.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir20.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir2.jpg http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir11.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir5.jpg http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir9.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir12.jpg http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir13.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir14.jpg http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir15.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir17.jpg http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Izeh/Ayapir18.jpg

Kurangun

17th century B.C.

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Kurangun1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Kurangun.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Kurangun2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Kurangun3.jpg

Anubanini Relief and Inscription (2350 BC):

http://www.anobanini.ir/pic/travel/kermanshah/sarpol/anobanini/large/Sarpol-Anobanini-002.jpg http://www.anobanini.ir/pic/travel/kermanshah/sarpol/anobanini/large/Sarpol-Anobanini-001.jpg

source: www.anobanini.ir

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Anobanini1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Anobanini2.jpg

Those are some prisoners from modern Iraq, it is said history repeats!

http://uaeprison.com/images/dragging-an-Iraqi-prisoner-408.gif

Naqsh-e Rajab (3rd century AD):

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/rajab1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/rajab2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/rajab3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/rajab4.jpg

a great contructions on mountain :banana:

Amazing!
How can I get there? Is it safe?

Great heritage! I only lack in understanding of the meaning of those sculptures. Was that area kind of a practicing ground for artists?!

Great heritage! I only lack in understanding of the meaning of those sculptures. Was that area kind of a practicing ground for artists?!

well, the art displayed here is from various eras, some from early antiquity, some late antiquity, some from 1st/2nd millenium bc , and some pre historic

the ones from antiquity display scenes and images of various conquests, feasts ....

As I said in this thread Rock-cut and Cave Architecture (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1450889), there about 50,000 historical monuments from different nations on Zagros Mountains.

From the ancient Chinese Lung Dragons:

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Lung1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Lung2.jpg


so what is the history behind this?

^^ The sculpture in the stone is historical, the cage around it is new and to protect it.

I meant what is the history behind a sculpture of a oriental dragon in Iran.

^^

That has to be the silkroad between China and Egypt;
http://www.silkroadproject.org/desktopmodules/livecontent/Thumbnail.aspx?HomeDir=%2fPortals%2f0%2f&ModuleId=1371&Size=510&Image=map_main_sm.jpg

The route is going straight through the Zagros Mountains.

Too bad this silk road never made itself into Mesoamerica.

so what is the history behind this?

It is said to be built by Ghazan Khan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazan

Mahmud Ghazan (1271–1304) (Mongolian: Газан хаан, Chinese: 合贊, sometimes referred to as Casanus by Westerners[1]) was the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran from 1295 to 1304. ... His principal wife was Kokechin, a Mongol princess sent by Kublai Khan, and escorted from the Mongol capital to the Ilkhanate by Marco Polo.

As you read he was educated by a Chinese monk, who taught him Buddhism, he built this Buddhist temple near his capital.

Near Kurangun that I mentioned above, there is an interesting rock-cut tomb.

http://www.njcu.edu/programs/jchistory/Images/B_Images/Barrow_Mansion_Ionic_Column_Detail_2002_Large_AS.jpg

As you read in this book: The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture - Page 269 (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3IKoh75RI38C&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=da-u-dukhtar&source=web&ots=CyDhZSwTBt&sig=FVeY547lBFBLiX7uP06oealBAT4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=da-u-dukhtar&f=false)

A remote and quite different "earliest" Ionic building, one with columns (or at any rate half-columns) that support brackets ending in scrolled-spiral capitals, is not strictly speaking a building, but a tomb cut into the rock at Da-u-Dukhtar, near Kurangun (about 50 km north of Kazerun), in southwest Persia.

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Dau1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Dau3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Dau4.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Dau5.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Dau6.jpg

General View of Naqsh-i Rostam (ancient Persian tombs):

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NRostam1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NRostam2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NRostam3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NRostam4.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NRostam5.jpg

wow amazing

World's largest ancient carving:

Farhadtarash, 7th century BC
(the original height was about 70 meters)

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/FarhadTarash0.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/FarhadTarash1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/FarhadTarash2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/FarhadTarash3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/FarhadTarash4.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/FarhadTarash5.jpg

Taq-e Bostan
From 1,700 years ago.

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Bostan0.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Bostan8.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Bostan1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Bostan6.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Bostan7.jpg

Tangeh Savashi
Just 200 years ago

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Vashi1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Vashi2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Vashi3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Vashi4.jpg

I think the title should be changed to "50,000 historical monuments on Iran's Mountains" because the above one is on the Alborz mountains.

Bishapur
From 1,700 years ago

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/BishapurR1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/BishapurR2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/BishapurR3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/BishapurR4.jpg

Great thread!! Thank you for sharing this wonderful heritage!

Maybe make one thread about Sassanian palaces as well??

this really interesting the details and patterns are spectacular!

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Bostan1.jpg

however I have a question about the crescent and the design pattern on the roof. well for the crescent it's a religious symbol nowadays so what did it mean 1700 years ago ?
and for the pattern on the roof what is its origins because the same concept of that pattern is found in traditional architecture design around the medal east at the present time?

sorry about all these questions :nuts: can't help my curiosity...

Great thread!! Thank you for sharing this wonderful heritage!

Maybe make one thread about Sassanian palaces as well??

You are welcome, of course I can make a thread about the Sassanid palaces too.

however I have a question about the crescent and the design pattern on the roof. well for the crescent it's a religious symbol nowadays so what did it mean 1700 years ago ?

There is also a star, Star and crescent is the main Zoroastrian astrological symbol, you can see this symbol on the Sassanid coins too:

http://st.coinshome.net/coin-image-1_Drachm-Silver-Sassanid_Empire_(224%E2%80%93651)-500-250-pWvBwcI0nUUAAAEmMic6TOhI.jpg

and for the pattern on the roof what is its origins because the same concept of that pattern is found in traditional architecture design around the medal east at the present time?

sorry about all these questions :nuts: can't help my curiosity...

If you mean those ziggurat shapes, Sassanids certainly copied it from the Achaemenids but I think it has an ancient Elamite origin, Persepolis:

http://www.veteransforpeaceny.org/persrelief-vi.jpg

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/247/cache/lost-city-persepolis-iran_24727_600x450.jpg

Azarakhsh Mithraeum/Fire Temple/Mosque:
From 2,100 years ago

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Azarakhsh/Azar1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Azarakhsh/Azar2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Azarakhsh/Azar3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Azarakhsh/Azar4.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Azarakhsh/Azar5.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Azarakhsh/Azar6.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Azarakhsh/Azar7.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Azarakhsh/Azar8.jpg

An ancient multistorey apartment:

Karaftu
From 2,300 years ago

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul4.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul9.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul13.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul7.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul6.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul12.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul14.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul10.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul11.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Karaftu/Hercul15.jpg

^^ wow! Never heard of those before! you allways bring new unheard things! merci!

so sad that so many idiotic people think its cool to vandalize such monuments, and sad that authorities dont take care of these

World's largest man-made cave:

Sangshekan
Date: Unknown

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Sangshekan/Sang1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Sangshekan/Sang2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Sangshekan/Sang3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Sangshekan/Sang4.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Sangshekan/Sang5.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Sangshekan/Sang6.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Sangshekan/Sang7.jpg

These rock-cut statues are epic looking, like they belong in the Lord of the Rings.

World's largest man-made cave:

http://www.allempires.com/uploads/Sangshekan/Sang6.jpg



You mean dwarf-made cave. This is clearly the beginning of the Mines of Moria. It's how the columns were cut, from the top down.

http://img-nex.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/orig/7557_orig.jpg
http://scrapbook.theonering.net/scrapbook/movies/sets/moria/view/7557

There is really an ancient dwarf-made cave in Zagros mountains:

Niasar Cave
From 2,100 years ago

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NiasarC1.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NiasarC2.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NiasarC3.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NiasarC4.jpg

More info and pics: http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/niasar_cave_temple

http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/NiasarC5.jpg

Tangeh Savashi
Just 200 years ago


http://www.allempires.com/Uploads/Vashi4.jpg

great :cheers: