Carving of Persian and Median Soldiers in traditional costume with Farvahar. Persepolis / Google arts and culture

First page of an Iranian Sade manuscript of the Vendidad, the only volume of the Sasanian Avesta (called Juddēwdād therein) which has remained intact until today / Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 320 - FOLIO, Vendidad Sade / Wikimedia Commons

Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi. Kay Khusraw prepares to behead Afrasiyab. Iran, circa 1590-1600 / Arthur M. Sackler gallery / Google arts and culture

Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi. Rustam Seizes Afrasiyab by the Girdle and Lifts him from the Saddle. Circa 1430–40 / MET / Google arts and culture

Darafsh. Statue of Arash the Archer at the Sa'dabad Complex. Tehran, Iran / Wikimedia Commons

Folio from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp. Firdausi and the poets of Ghazna. Circa 1532 / Aga Khan Museum / Wikimedia Commons

Sultan Mohammed. Kayumars' Court. Miniature, detail. "Shahnameh" by Ferdowsi. Circa 1525-1535 / Aga Khan Museum / Wikimedia Commons

Adolf Stieler. German map of Iran and Turan (Persia and Central Asia during the Qajar dynasty). 1843 / Wikimedia Commons

Lithograph of the Letter of Khosrow. Iraj (top), Selim (bottom right), and Tur (bottom left). Tehran, Master Mohammad Taghi's Factory. 1868 / Wikimedia Commons

Khusrau kills Aila. Baysungur's Shahnama. 1430 / The Gulistan Palace Museum / Flickr

Siyavash faces Afrasiyab across the Jihun (Amudaria) River. Master of the Jainesque Shahnama. India, 1450 / Wikimedia Commons

Lithograph of the Letter of Khosrow. Afrasiab. Tehran, Master Mohammad Taghi's Factory. 1868 / Wikimedia Commons

Nicholas Roerich. The Star of the Mother of the World. From the «His Country» Series. 1924 / Google arts and culture