Gilded silver plate with a royal feast motif, 7th century CE.
the Sassanid emperor is crowned, seated on a throne and holding a cup of wine as the symbol of power. Israel Museum

The arrival of the army of Mithradates VI in Athens and the welcome of the people to the Mithradatic army.
Edwin Moreau (1877-1952)

Dariush the great’s manner towards the Carthaginian opponents
In conquering Carthage, which was a defeated opponent and whose people were ready to accept Darius's terms, instead of extorting money or plundering the city, Dariush the Achaemenid ordered first, eating the meat of dogs among them should be prohibited and second, child sacrifice to their idols should be completely banned.
Their idols were made with its arms stretched out horizontally, and people would place their baby on its forearms and light a fire under it to roast it as a sign of paying tribute.

Vase handle in the form of a winged Capricorn. Gold, silver. 5-4th centuries BC, Iran.
Paris, Louvre

Beautiful Sassanid peacocks in a circle of pearls. Silk fabric from the 3rd to 7th centuries AD, probably woven in Iran.
Treasure of Aachen Cathedral, Germany

Silver bust, a woman from a royal family, Sasanian period

The painting "Man with a Bow" is on a fragment of a jar dating back to the late 5th millennium BC (about 7,000 years ago).
Discovered at the Joi Hill in Fars province, Iran

A griffin-lion ornament from part of the Oxus Treasure, the most important surviving collection of silver and gold from the Achaemenid period in 5th-4th centuries BC.
Discovered from the Takht-e Kavad region in Tajikistan.
British Museum

Wedding rings, most likely first of their kind in the world, with the role of a man and a woman.
Ancient Iranians, 4,000 years ago in the Amlash civilization, gave each other bronze rings with the image of their wives as a sign of their vows, loyalty, and love for their spouses.
Probably rooted in Mithraic views, ancient Iranian religion based on one of their significant ideas, which was regarded as “Loyalty”.

Private Palace of Darius the Great known as Tachar Palace, in Pasargadae.
Photo by Alireza Naderifard

Fine Parthian bowl with a design of golden flowers and precious stones among silver bands, made in the first century BC in northeastern Iran.
Getty Museum, California

Sasanian royal silver-gold gilding plate depicting the bust of the Shapur II ( also known as Shapur the great), likely from the 3rd century CE.
No sign of welding or bonding is on the surface of the head, and it was artistically made from a single piece of silver by hammering and engraving, and then gilded with mercury and gold amalgam. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bronze statue of “Shapur dokhtak”, wife of the Sassanid king, Bahram II
This statue, dated to 400 AD, belongs to the Sassanid queen, granddaughter of Shapur I, was unveiled in the Al Thani collection, the treasury of the Emir of Qatar.