Taq-e Bostan (Persian: طاق‌بستان, Kurdish: تاق وەسان, lit. 'Arch of stone') is a site with a series of large rock reliefs from the era of the Sassanid...

especially in the northern vicinity of the city in Tang-e Kenesht, Tang-e Malaverd and near Taq-e Bostan. Neanderthal Man existed in the Kermanshah region during...

Bahram's status as patron divinity of travelers. The rock reliefs at Taq-e Bostan lie 6 kilometres (4 mi) northeast of Kermanshah, where a spring gushes...

The inscriptions of Shapur II the Great and Shapur III at Taq-e Bostan, are located about 5 kilometers away from the northeast of Kermanshah and date to...

hunting camp. Reliefs of these scenes have remained largely intact in Taq-e Bostan. Hunting dogs have been used to hunt boar since ancient times. Boar hunting...

Kermanshah to Qasr-e Shirin with the new road overlooking it. It is about a five hundred meters walk away from the main road. Taq-e Bostan Taq-e Shirin and Farhad...

become prominent around the 6th and 7th centuries, as is apparent at Taq-e Bostan. Early reliefs and seals portray members of the aristocracy wearing domed...

Taq-e Bostan, but in this case not quite as convincingly as for the one of Narseh. But, aside from the two rock carvings at Naqsh-e Rustam and Taq-e Bostan...

and the reliefs at Taq-e Bostan. Ruins of the Tachara, Persepolis. Tomb of Cyrus, Pasargadae. The Sasanian reliefs at Taq-e Bostan. Shapur-Khwast Castle...

plain above Taq-e Bostan Mount located in north of Kermanshah city in west of Iran. The plain is a flat area at the top of Taq-e Bostan Mount, which...

to the Alchon Huns. He is notable for having a rock relief carved at Taq-e Bostan, depicting a scene of him along with his father. He was the penultimate...

Province) as a place for his relief, he instead had a relief carved in Taq-e Bostan in the province of Media (near present-day Kermanshah). The relief shows...

centuries, the last one being erected under Shapur III (r. 383–388). At Taq-e Bostan, Khosrow mimicked and magnified the rock relief of Shapur III. His relief...

depictions of Zoroaster derive from a Sassanid-era rock-face carving at Taq-e Bostan. In this depiction, a figure is seen to preside over the coronation of...

history. In polytheistic and animistic worldviews, supernatural powers (i.e. deities, spirits, daemons, etc.) were assigned to different natural phenomena...

Ellora Kanheri Caves Mahabalipuram Vijayanagara Behistun Naqsh-e Rostam Taq-e Bostan Colossal Statue of Shapur I, Shapur cave Petra The stone of the...

Tehran Palace of Qasr e Qajar, near Tehran Courtyard of the Palace of Qasr e Qajar, near Tehran Gazebo and gardens of the palace of Qasr e Qajar, Tehran Shah-Abdol-Azim...

Seleucid-era Mesopotamia Bust of Selene on a Roman sarcophagus (3rd century) Taq-e Bostan, from the Sasanian Empire of the pre-Islamic era. Note the crescent above...

Essaqwand Rock Tombs Istakhr Naqsh-e Rajab Persepolis Qadamgah (ancient site) Pasargadae and Tomb of Cyrus the Great Taq-e Bostan (rock reliefs of various Sassanid...

survive, with one of the best preserved ones being a rock relief at Taq-e Bostan where Khosrau II is seen riding his favorite horse, Shabdiz. The fighting...

dynasty. Also, there is a kind of square frame drum in the stonecutting of Taq-e Bostan (another famous monument located 5km northeast of Kermanshah city). These...

colossal sculpture in situ Naqsh-e Rustam Taq-e Bostan, another site of Sassanid-era rock reliefs. "Nasqsh-e Rostam and Naqsh-e Rajab". UNESCO World Heritage...

stone vaults and domes and buttressed walls. Sasanian carvings at Taq-e Bostan and Naqsh-e Rustam were colored; so were many features of the palaces; but...

as telling mythical tales about Oromazes (i.e., Ahura Mazda), who is born from light, and Areimanios (i.e., Ahriman), who is born from gloom, engaging...

Naqsh-e Rajab, with a further four Sassanid rock reliefs, three celebrating kings and one a high priest. Another important Sassanid site is Taq Bostan with...

of the first half of the 20th century was that the lack of any mention (i.e., Zoroaster's silence) of Mithra in these texts implied that Zoroaster had...

territory. This type of helmet appears in sculptures on pillar capitals at Ṭāq-e Bostān and Behistun, and on the Anahita coinage of Khosrow II (r. 590-628 CE)...

Mithra (left) in a 4th-century investiture sculpture at Taq-e Bostan in western Iran....

territory. This type of helmet appears in sculptures on pillar capitals at Ṭāq-e Bostān and Behistun, and on the Anahita coinage of Khosrow II (r. 590–628 CE)...

Greek examples, natural and architectural, with some details of their sites. E. E. Rice, "Grottoes on the Acropolis of Hellenistic Rhodes", The Annual of the...