Architecture Building first evolved out of the dynamics between needs (shelter, security, worship, etc.) and means (available building materials and attendant skills). As human cultures...
About the music of the Elamites not much is known; however, we know of a ruler of Susa who had musician at his temple gate...
in fresco and the illumination of manuscripts (see Illuminated Manuscripts) were practiced in Iran at least as early as the Sassanian period, but only fragments...
The mosque became the major building type in Iranian architecture. The established style of vaulted construction was continued; common features were the pointed arch, the...
Whatever is known of the origins of the pile rug is based on suppositions but the can assume that pile weaving had a nomadic origin...