Woodcut style expressionist image of slaves hauling a winged chimera statue. Spirituality History Education Persian Empire Building
Antique Map from 1862 of the Persian Empire, the time of Alexander the Great. Maps text is written in Latin. View More: Map Cartography Persian Culture Antique Map of the Persian Empire
Antique Map from 1862 of the Persian Empire, from 402 - 323 BC. Maps text is written in Latin. [b]View More:[/b] [url=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=9145610][img]http://www.walker1890.co.uk/istock/istock-map.jpg[/img][/url][url=http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=2789749][img]http://www.walker1890.co.uk/istock/istock-engraving.jpg[/img][/url] Ancient History Greece Latin Script Antique Map of the Persian Empire
Antique map from the Persian Empire (around 400 BC) before the conquest of Alexander the Great (334/335 BC). Legend in Latin language. Steel engraving with hand colored borderlines, published in 1861. Arabia Engraving Asian and Indian Ethnicities Persian Empire (c.400 BC), steel engraving, pubolished in 1861
Vintage engraving showing the Behistun Inscription, a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran. Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage. 1864 View More: Ilustration Antiquities Print Behistun Inscription
Vintage engraving from 1864 showing the Chalcedony Cylinder Signet of Darius I. Darius I 550 to 486 BC was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Also called Darius the Great, he ruled the empire at its peak. View More: Ilustration Persian Culture The Past Chalcedony Cylinder
Vintage colour lithograph showing the Death of a Simurgh. Simurgh, also spelled simorgh, simurg, simoorg or simourv, also known as Angha, is a benevolent, mythical flying creature. The figure can be found in all periods of Greater Iranian art and literature, and is evident also in the iconography of medieval Armenia, the Byzantine empire, and other regions that were within the sphere of Persian cultural influence. View More: Art Painted Image Persian Culture Death of a Simurgh
19th-century illustration of the grave of Cyrus the Great of Persia in Pasargadae, Iran. Cyrus II of Persia (600 or 576 – 530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, or Fist Persian Empire. Original artwork published in "A pictorial history of the world's great nations: from the earliest dates to the present time" by Charlotte M. Yonge (Selmar Hess, New York, 1882). Old Ruin Architecture Drawing - Art Product The grave of Cyrus (antique engraving)