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.

Zarinaia was queen of the Scythians during the reign of Astybaras, the king of Media. This Greek form of her name is derived from a two-part name in the Old Persian language: aya and zari, meaning Golden.
According to Ctesias, who in this case seems to have recounted a true Persian story he heard at the Persian court; Zarinaia was very pretty who was both a ruler and a warrior.
She was said to be the sister and wife of the Scythian king, Cydraeus, who after his death married the Parthian king, Marmaris. Zarinaia was wounded during a battle with the Medes, and Striangaius of Media (the son-in-law of Astybaras) pursued her, but he spared her life and did not kill her. When Striangaius was later captured by Marmaris, Zarinaia rescued him and gave his lands to the Medes.
Later, Before committing suicide, Striangaius wrote her a farewell letter, preserved on a papyrus fragment. Later, Her people built a pyramid shaped tomb for her as memorial.
Triumph of the Amazons, Painted By Claude Déruet (c. 1588–1660)