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Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, or Oxus Civilization, is a Bronze Age culture of oasis settlements in Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, dating from about 2250 to 1500 BC.
Bit-Hamban
Bit-Hamban, also Bīt Ḫamban or Bīt Habban, was a district and later Assyrian province in the central Zagros, attested from after 1157 BC to 612 BC.
Dalma culture
The Dalma culture is a prehistoric archaeological culture of the late 6th and 5th millennia BC in northwestern Iran and the central Zagros, known for its distinctive painted Dalma ware.
Ellipi
Ellipi was an independent kingdom in the central Zagros mountains of western Iran, attested in Neo-Assyrian records from 866 BC until its mid-7th-century BC annexation by the Medes.
Golden bowl of Hasanlu
The Golden bowl of Hasanlu is a solid gold bowl with mythological relief scenes, found in 1958 at Hasanlu Tepe in northwestern Iran and held by the National Museum of Iran.
Jiroft culture
The Jiroft culture, also called the Halil Rud culture, is a Bronze Age archaeological culture of the Halil River valley in south-eastern Iran, known for carved chlorite vessels.
King of Anshan
King of Anshan was a royal title of the rulers of Elam, later borne by the early Persian kings Teispes, Cyrus I, Cambyses I, and Cyrus the Great.
Lullubi
The Lullubi, also known as Lullubu or Lullubum, were an ancient tribal group of the Zagros foothills near Sulaymaniyah, attested from the Sargonic period into Neo-Assyrian times.
Marhasi
Marhasi, also known as Marhashi or Parahshum, was an ancient polity of the Iranian highlands, attested in Mesopotamian texts from about 2300 to 1750 BCE.
Matiene
Matiene, also known as Matiane or Matieni, is a land and people of northwestern Iran known from Herodotus, probably in the Lake Urmia basin near Mannaea.
Median dynasty
The Median dynasty was the ruling lineage of the Median kingdom of western Iran, described by Herodotus as four kings of one family, ending when Cyrus the Great deposed Astyages in 550 BCE.
Median kingdom
The Median kingdom, also known as the Median Empire, was an ancient Iranian kingdom centered at Ecbatana, overthrown by Cyrus II of Persia in 550 BC.
Median language
Median, also called Medic, is the ancient northwestern Iranian language of the Medes, attested only through proper names and loanwords because no Median text has ever been found.
Paraetaceni
The Paraetaceni (Greek Παρητακηνοί) were a people of the mountain district of Paraetacene between Media and Persis, named by Herodotus as one of the six Median tribes.
Parsua
Parsua, also called Parsuash or Parsumash, was a land of the central Zagros mountains named in Neo-Assyrian records from the 9th century BC and later made an Assyrian province.
Ziwiye hoard
The Ziwiye hoard, also called the Ziwiye treasure, is a group of gold, silver, bronze, and ivory objects reportedly found near Saqqiz, Iran, around 1946–1947, mixing Assyrian, Urartian, and Scythian styles.