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 at Naqsh-e Rostam, Fars, Iran, with the Kaʿba-ye Zartošt tower before them. — Photograph via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA (verify exact file + attribution before embedding) · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → Naqsh-e Rostam
• Gold votive plaque with a figure holding the barsom, the Oxus Treasure, British Museum. — The Trustees of the British Museum · © The Trustees of the British Museum (linked, not hosted; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 on the museum site — verify before embedding) · linked (not hosted) · source ↗ → Gold plaque of a barsom-bearer (Oxus Treasure)
• The winged symbol above the relief of Darius at Behistun; and above the tomb reliefs at Naqsh-e Rostam. — 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)