Sassanian Era

• Review of Sassanian Studies (2018) by Dr. Matthew G. Marsh
• Syvanne, I. (2019). Review of Kaveh Farrokh, Armies of Ancient Persia: the Sassanians. Persian Heritage, 93, p.15. See also News posting for this review …
• Gabriel, R. A. (2018). Review of Kaveh Farrokh, The Armies of Ancient Persia: The Sassanians, Military History Journal. See also News posting for this review …
• Karamian, Gh., & Farrokh, K. (2017). Sassanian stucco decorations from the Ramavand (Barz Qawaleh) excavations in the Lorestan Province of Iran. HISTORIA I ŚWIAT, No.6, pp. 69-88.

Sassanian Empire in Maps

• Sassanian History in Maps

Sassanian Architecture & Sites

• Master Builders: Influence of Sassanid Architecture Reached far Beyond their Borders – translation in Persian  تاثیرات معماری ساسانیان بسیار فراتر از مرزهایشان بود   (pdf)

    Sassanian sites Registered with UNESCO

• UNESCO: The Sassanian Archaeological Landscape of the Fars region
  
• UNESCO: Takht e Soleiman (see more articles on this archaeological site further below)
• UNESCO: Gundi-Shapur University – see also: Restoration of Ancient Gundi-Shapur University
• UNESCO: Bishapur
• UNESCO: Sarvestan

     Ctesiphon-تيسفون–

• Ctesiphon: Capital city of the Sassanians
• World History Encyclopedia: Ctesiphon
• Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران–Ctesiphon-تيسفون–
• Restoration Plans for Ctesiphon (September 2021)

     Wall of Gorgan -دیوار گرگان

• The Great Wall of Gorgan--دیوار بزرگ گرگان– Synopsis of Kaveh Farrokh report also printed in Tehran Times International Daily March 9 2010- The Great Wall of Gorgan (pdf) – see also Secrets of the Red Snake: The Great Wall of Iran Revealed, in Current World Archaeology Today, No. 27, 2008 (pdf) –
• Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران– Wall of Gorgan-ديوار گرگان –

      Firuzabad-فیروزاباد

• Castle of Ardashir at Firuzabad-فيروز آباد- in Fars
• Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران–Firuzabad-فيروز آباد–
• Nik Spatari: Castle of Ardashir and Rome’s Basilica di Massenzio

      Bishapur – بیشاپور

• The Ancient Sassanian City of Bishapur

       Takht e Soleiman (Shiz)-تخت سليمان

• Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران–Takht e Soleiman-تخت سليمان–
• Mary Boyce: Ādur-Gushnasp
• The Ancient Site of Takhte Soleiman
• Dietrich Huff: Takhte Suleiman
• Takht-e Suleiman

      Kangavar-کنگوار

• The Temple of Anahita at Kangavar
• سنگهای شگفت انگیز – نگاهی به پرستشگاه کنگاور – ا. پریان – The Amazing Stones – An observation of the temple at Kangavar – by A. Parian (in Persian)

        Salmas – سلماس

• Sassanian Relief at Salmas (ancient Shapur)

        Ramavand-رماوند

• Excavations in 2013 of Partho-Sassanian site at Ramavand, Loristan

       The Castle of Sarvestan-كاخ سروستان         

• Historical Atlas of Iran-اطلس تاريخی ايران–The Castle of Sarvistan-كاخ سروستان – 
• Enigmatic monument of Sarvestan has been dated

       Izadkhast-ایزدخواست

• The Izadkhast Fortress at Fars Province

       Taghe Bostan – طاق بستان      

• An Overview of Taghe Bostan
• The Site of Taghe Bostan طاق بستان

       Nagshe Rustam – نقش رستم

• Sassanian Inscription Unearthed In Ancient Iran Necropolis Being Deciphered

       Nagshe Rajab – نقش رجب

• An Overview of the Sassanian site of Nagshe Rajab

       Iwan-e Karkheh – ایوان کرخه

• A Forgotten Gem of Sassanian Architecture: Iwan-e Karkheh

       Sassanian Vaults-طاقهای ساسانی

• Morvarid Mazhari Motlagh: Sassanian Vaults. In e-Sasanika 16, 2011 (pdf)

      Yazd -یزد

• Yazd: Heir of an Ancient Civilization

      Persian Gulf-خلیج فارس

• Sassanians in the Persian Gulf according to archeological data

      Southern and Central Iran-مرکز و جنوب ایران

• Sandstorm in southern Iran exposed lost ancient city and relics

     Gundi-Shapur University – دانشگاه گندی شاپور

• UNESCO celebrates 1,750th anniversary of Iran’s ancient Gundi-Shapur University

      Sassanian sites in Northern Iraq-سایت های ساسانیان در شمال عراق

• Sassanian Loom discovered in Northern Iraq
• Establishment of a Permanent Exhibition of Sassanian Inscriptions at the Suleimaniyah Museum

      Darband-دربند

• Documentary Film Production: the UNESCO Sassanian Fortress in Darband
• UNESCO: Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent

      Tappeh Mill – تپه میل

• The site of Tappeh Mill

      Shahr-e Belqeys -شهر بلقیس

• Shahr-e Belqeys in the late Sassanian and Early Islamic eras

For Sassanian Military Architecture see:

• Farrokh, K., Karamian, Gh. & Karamian, H. (2021). Military Architecture and the Four-Spāhbed System for Defense of the Sassanian Empire (224-651 CE). HISTORIA I ŚWIAT: ACTA MILITARIA IRANICA, 10, pp.117-151.

For Sassanian Architectural and Artistic Legacy on Islamic Civilization see:

• Iran’s Legacy in Islamic and Arabian Civilizations

Sassanian Music 

• –سازهای دوره ساسانی به موزه موسیقی اهدا شد– Reconstructions of Sassanian Musical Instruments donated to Museums (in Persian)

Sassanian Society and Culture

• Sassanian Society: What was it like living in the Sasanian Empire?
• Arthurian and European Culture and Ancient Iran (Eire-An) 

Marriage & Family

• Shapour Shabazi (with updates/edits by Khaschayar Rochssani): –دروغ پردازی خاورشناسان: زناشویی با خواهر و مادر در ایران باستان-Falsifications by Contemporary Near east/Assyriology specialists regarding allegations of brother-sister and mother-son marriages – see also Azadegan Iran posting

  Theology – for more see/click “Culture, Mythology & Nowruz“

  Games for Developing Intelligence

• Chess: Iranian or Indian invention?
• Sassanian game of Hashtpay

Education

• Education in the Parthian and Sassanian empires
• The Hêrbedestân

Sassanian Economy & Administration

• Viking-era Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian Silver Coins Found in Sweden
• The Plurality of the Persian Empire: The Achaemenids to the Sassanians
• Why were the Iranian Empires so Successful?
• –وقف: نهادی ایرانی -Legal Sassanian treatise of the 3rd Century CE

Drafsh e Kaviani

• The Drafsh Kaviani Emblem and its connections to the European-Gothic Cross

Persis before the rise of the Sassanians

• –دودمان های پارس/ نوشته: صابر امیری پریان-S. Amiraparian: Dynasties of Persis in the pre-Sassanian period (pdf)  (in Persian). Note the depiction of the Drafsh e Kaviani on Sassanian coins on pages 10-11 (for more on Iranian banners and flags see The Lion and the Sun Motif of Iran: A brief Analysis  and its Persian translation  بررسی اجمالی نشان شیر و خورشید ایران (pdf).
• Sassanian Coins from Pars province – by S. Amiraparian (in Persian)
• The Persepolis Graffiti

The Early to Middle Era Sassanians

• An Analysis of the History of Iran (Part Six): The Sassanian Monarchy -شاهنشاهی ساسانی  (in Persian) (pdf)
• Atropates
• Dura Europos: Its’ Archaeology & History

Sassanian Monarchs (early 3rd century CE to 5th century CE)

• Ardashir I (upcoming 2025)
• Shapur I (upcoming 2025)
• Bahrām I
• Shapur II (upcoming (2025)
• Bahrām V Gōr
• Bahrām VI Chobin (Čōbīn)

The Late Sassanians

• Farrokh, K. (2021). La marea Sasánida [The Sassanian tide]. Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval, 66, pp.12-17.
• Professor Marie Louise Chaumont: Queen Boran
• –ساسانیان در آفریقا-Sassanians in Africa (in Persian)

Fall of the Sassanians and the Post-Sassanians

• Farrokh, K., & Sánchez-Gracia, J. (2021). La invasion Arabe de Persia [The Arab invasion of Persia]. Historia de la Guerra, 19, pp.5-12.
• Bahram Roshan Zamir:  –شاهنشاهی ساسانیان از خسرو انوشه روان دادگر تا یزدگرد سوم-فروپاشی ساسانیان –  (The Sassanian Dynasty from Khosrow Anushirvan to Yazdegird III-Fall of the Sassanians) (in Persian) ((pdf)
• CAIS: Post-Islamic Historical letters in Egypt related to Arabo-Islamic Conquest of Sassanian Iran
• –پژوهش و ترجمه: آزاده احسانی چمبلی-نامه‌های گنجینه پاپیروسهای کتابخانه ملی اتریش از چگونگی مبارزه های عربها می‌گویند -Azadeh Ehsani Jaabali: Letters in the archives of the Austrian national Library that highlight the role of the Arab conquests of Iran
• Abdol-Hussein Zarrinkoub’s book “Two Centuries of Silence” (in Persian) which outlines the consequences of Arab Caliphate rule in Iran during the first two centuries after the overthrow of the Sassanian Empire –دو قرن سکوت/ عبدالحسین زرین کوب -(download in pdf)

     Prince Pirouz (Pirooz) and the post-Sassanians in China

• Matteo Compareti: The last Sassanians in China
• Pirooz in China: Defeated Persian army takes Refuge
• The Persian Prince Pirouz

     Works of Parvaneh Pourshariati on the Fall of Sassanians

• –سقوط ساسانیان، «ماحصل اختلافات داخلی–The Fall of the Sassanians: the role of internal conflicts
• From Parvaneh Pourshariati’s 2008 text – See Foreword (translated to Persian) by Khashayar Rokhasani –پیشگفتار: خشایار رُخسانی –; See first chapter (translated to Persian) –نشیب و فروپاشی فرمانروایی ساسانی– (pdf).

Post-Sassanian sites

• Photos of Resket Tower in Sari, Iran
• Archaeological finds in Mazandaran, Northern Iran

Recommended Readings

• Parvaneh Pourshariati (2008). Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (International Library of Irani. I. B. Tauri (pdf) (Order at Amazon). -دکتر پروانه پورشریعتی-برگردان: خشایار رُخسانی–نشیب و فروپاشی فرمانروایی ساسانی– (pdf)

Links & Resources

• See Review of Sassanian Studies by Matthew G. Marsh and this posting for latest updates on Sassanian Studies…
• Sasanika: History and Culture of the Sasanians – UC Irvine School of Humanities
• Cultural Heritage News Agency of Iran   –خبرگزاري ميراث فرهنگي–

Contemporary Artists Reviving the Sassanians

• Reviving the Senmurv by Ali Shahali