Credits & Image Licensing

Every image reference and its licence. Images are embedded only where public-domain, Creative-Commons (with attribution), or our own; copyrighted or uncertain images are described and linked, not hosted.

• The Behistun relief and inscription on the cliff at Bisotun, Kermanshah, Iran. — Photograph via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA (verify exact file + attribution before embedding) · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → The Behistun Inscription (DB)
• The rock-cut Achaemenid royal tombs in the cliff at Naqsh-e Rostam, Fars, with the Kaʿba-ye Zartošt tower standing before them. — Photograph via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA / public domain (verify exact file + attribution before embedding) · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → Naqsh-e Rostam
• The tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae — the gabled stone chamber on its six-stepped plinth, on the plain of the River Pulvar in Fars. — Photograph via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA / public domain (verify exact file + attribution before embedding) · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → Pasargadae
• Gold votive plaque of a man in Median dress holding the barsom, the Oxus Treasure (British Museum 123949). — The Trustees of the British Museum · © The Trustees of the British Museum (linked, not hosted; the museum publishes its images CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — verify per-image terms before embedding) · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → Gold plaque of a barsom-bearer (Oxus Treasure)
• The Cyrus Cylinder (BM 90920), a barrel-shaped Babylonian foundation deposit, in the British Museum. — Photograph via Wikimedia Commons / the British Museum · CC BY-SA / CC0 (verify exact file + attribution before embedding) · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → The Cyrus Cylinder
• Gold daric of the royal archer type, the crowned King with bow and spear in the running (Knielauf) posture; struck chiefly at Sardis under Darius I and his successors. — representative specimen; verify per-image terms before embedding · not hosted (linked); confirm the holding museum's image licence before any embed · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → The Daric (and the Siglos)
• A Persepolis Fortification tablet in Elamite cuneiform, formed around a knotted string, from the Oriental Institute (ISAC) collection. — Persepolis Fortification Archive Project, ISAC, University of Chicago · verify exact file + attribution before embedding · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → The Persepolis Fortification Archive
• The winged symbol above the relief of Darius at Behistun, and above the tomb façade of Darius at Naqsh-e Rostam — the figure in the winged ring, hovering over the king at worship. — Photographs via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA / public domain (verify exact file + attribution before embedding) · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → The Winged Symbol (the figure in the winged ring)