Rock art in Iran includes archaeological petroglyphs, or carving in rock; pictographs, or painting on rock; and rock reliefs. Large numbers of prehistoric...
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art, and for traditional crafts see arts of Iran. Rock art in Iran is its most ancient surviving art. Iranian architecture is covered at that article. From...
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prehistoric rock art is found in caves or partly enclosed rock shelters; this type also may be called cave art or parietal art. A global phenomenon, rock art is...
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The art of rock relief has been practiced by several civilizations during Iranian Antiquity since the end of the 3rd millennium BC. Iran, with 90 panels...
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Petroglyph (redirect from Rock drawings)
image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often...
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Iranian rock (also known as Rocka red) refers to rock music produced by Iranian artists. Rock music has been popular in Iran since 1960s, with the emergence...
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the Persian text in this article correctly. Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders...
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Soleymān Istakhr Great Wall of Gorgan Qal'eh Dokhtar Qumis, Iran List of archaeological sites sorted by country History of Iran Rock art in Iran [1]...
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In the first half of the first millennium BC, parts of what is now Iranian Azerbaijan were incorporated into Urartu. Prehistoric Asia Rock art in Iran...
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The Archaeology of Iran encompasses the following subjects: Archaeological sites in Iran: Rock art in Iran Great Wall of Gorgan Hasanlu Lovers Islamic...
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of the Iranian Plateau as well as of the South Caucasus, West Asia, and Central Asia Iran has one of the oldest, richest and most influential art heritages...
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Bhimbetka site has the oldest-known rock art in India, as well as is one of the largest prehistoric complexes. The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka are 45 kilometers...
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rock art, and sometimes found as part of, or in conjunction with, rock-cut architecture. However, they tend to be omitted in most works on rock art,...
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prehistoric Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, also known as Levantine art, were collectively declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998. The...
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Tehran (redirect from Teheran, Iran)
Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the...
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internationally celebrated styles such as jazz, rock, and hip hop. Iranian music influenced other cultures in West Asia, building up much of the musical terminology...
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Indie pop Indie rock Indietronica Indorock Industrial metal Industrial rock Instrumental rock Iranian alternative rock Iranian rock Italian occult psychedelia...
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Bishapur (category Architecture in Iran)
Faliyan in the Kazerun County of Pars Province, Iran. Bishapur was built near a river crossing and at the same site there is also a fort with rock-cut reservoirs...
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Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range...
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China. Indian art has itself received influences at times, especially from Central Asia and Iran, and Europe. Rock art of India includes rock relief carvings...
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ethnicity. Most Iranian Azerbaijanis are bilingual in Azerbaijani and Persian. They are mainly of Iranian descent. They are primarily found in and are native...
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Anubanini rock relief. Art of rock relief in ancient Iran Persian art Lullubi Anubanini Osborne, James F. (2014). Approaching Monumentality in Archaeology...
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It begins with Lullubi and Elamite rock reliefs, such as those at Kul-e Farah and Eshkaft-e Salman in southwest Iran, and continues under the Assyrians...
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Rock from Iran: 1973–1979 is a 2-CD/3-LP compilation album of Iranian songwriter, singer, and composer Kourosh Yaghmaei's solo material, released in 2011...
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in wood, from Egypt through to Iran. Samarra witnessed the "coming of age" of Islamic art. Polychrome painted stucco allowed for experimentation in new...
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The Kondoa Rock-Art Sites or Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings are a series of ancient paintings on rockshelter walls in central Tanzania. The Kondoa region...
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Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are citizens or nationals of the United States who are of Iranian ancestry. Most Iranian Americans...
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Khorramabad and a few number of sites in Piranshahr and Alborz and Central Iran. During this time, people began creating rock art.[citation needed] Early agricultural...
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Naqsh-e Rostam (redirect from Iran Sun Cross)
located about 13 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars Province, Iran. A collection of ancient Iranian rock reliefs are cut into the face of the mountain...
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According to American historian and archaeologist Arthur Pope, the supreme Iranian art, in the proper meaning of the word, has always been its architecture. The...
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