It's about Civilization of Iran, as one of the biggest ancient civilization in the world.

1. By: Kobra Lashkari

2.  Iran has civilization over 7000 years
 It is known as one of the biggest ancient
civilization in the world
 uncountable monuments such as burnt city,
Chogha Zanbil, Persepolis, Arg Bam, Imam
mosque, ….
 And great scientists like Avicecenna, Omar
khayyam,Molasdra,Molavi, and Sohravardi
represent Iranian rich civilization

3.  According to the archeologist, geologist and
Iranianist ghereshman:
 Initial humans lived in Iran about 8500 years
ago in the prehistory period.
 Some others told to 10,000 years ago.
 They hunted animals and gradually they farm.

4.  Shahr-I Sokhta (the Burnt City) is located in
the South Eastern part of Iran
 Shahr-I Sokhta is one of the most ancient
city in Sistan and baluchitan pravince, dates
back to 5,000 years ago and it spread over
150 hectares.
 It was discovered in 1967 by Iranian and
Italian archaeological teams.

6.  Based on the excavations done in the Burned
City the settlers of the Persian Plateau were
able to insert artificial eye prosthesis with
fixation to the face which proves that they
were able to reconstruct tissue deformities.
 The eye includes gold lines patterned like the
rays of the sun.

7.  Among the other valuable archeological items
that the site has yielded are the oldest known
backgammon set, dice, as well as numerous
metallurgical finds such as crucible pieces.

8.  Picture below shows a goblet that was found
at the Burnt City, which is believed to bear
the world's earliest animation.
 it shows the movement of the wild goat
toward a tree in five consecutive images. This
wild goat image was later adopted as the
symbol of ASIFA, the Association of Iranian
Animation Films.

9.  Currently most of the burnt city is located in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Cause these
countries now are separated from Iran.

10.  Another monument is Choga Zanbil a temple
which is located near shush town in
Khozestan province that used to be the
capital city of ancient Persia.

11.  It was hidden under mud and dust until a few
decades ago, that was accidently discovered
by Mr brown the Zealand officer in 1933.
 After excavated, in 1979 Choga Zanbil
became the first Iranian place to be inscribed
on the UNESCO world heritage list.
 It was built about 1250 BC by the king of
Iylam called Untash-Napirisha.

12.  Building’s height 52 meters, In 5 floor including 11
complex temples.
 It seems the pyramid was constructed close the
time that the Egyptian pyramids were build.

13.  But now it has reminded just 25 meters
height and 2 and half floor.

14.  Tkhat-e-Jamshid is the name of a place
which was the capital of great Dariush (from
522 to 486 B.C) with the area of 13 hectares
 This complex consists of seven palaces (halls)

15.  The stones have got engraving with pictures
of kings and other people.

16.  Also pictures of animals like lion and horses.


17.  The complex of palaces in Takht-e-Jamshid
has been fired by Eskandar Maghdouni in
year 330 BC and most of its monuments
became ruins.
 This complex has been recorded in the list of
Iran’s Historical Works and in the Global
Heritage List of UNESCO.
Currently some parts
of its stones are in the
Louvre museum in
France.

19.  Iran, The greatest empire in the world with 30
States

20.  It’s the world’s largest mud brick.
 It’s a town with 400 houses and some shops,
streets and schools.
 Located in Kerman

21.  It was built in the 5th century BC and
surprisingly it was applied untill1850 AD.
 Area of Arg is about 180,000 square meter
which surrounded with walls.
By 2003 earth quake
which occurred in
this area, it was
largely destroyed.

22.  Was built in 41-51 M
 Capital of Iran for bout 600 years (2 dynasty)
 Building belongs to Khosro parvis

23.  Its surrounding campus is about 120,000
square meters and includes Ctesiphon,
sponbar and some small cities such as
Baghdad which all together established
Madaen.
 Currently it is located in Iraq.

24.  Located in kermanshah
 Was built in 362 M by Ardashir II the ninth
king of Sasanian dynasty.

25.  Some of our monuments belong to after the
emergence of Islam which are in different
cities such as Esfahan, the cultural sister of
Malaysia.

26.  is the most important mosque that has been
remained form the Safavid Period in Iran
 Its construction began from 1611 to 1629 M
 One important point of Imam mosque is the
echo of the sound under the mosque’s dome

27.  It is a tomb of Abdolah Karladani located in
Isfahan which has been constructed 700
years ago
Its noticeable feature is that
When one of the towers starts to
shake by the human force, the
other one starts to shake
automatically.

28.  This unique dynamic behavior has become a
puzzle to architects and structural engineers
for many years

29.  Omar Khayyam (18 May 1048 – 4 December
1131) was a Persian polymath, philosopher,
mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also
wrote treatises on mechanics,
geography, mineralogy, music, and Islamic
theology.

30.  He compiled many astronomical tables and
performed a reformation of the calendar
which was more accurate than the other
scientists.
 Because of his dedication to the astronomy
science, a lunar crater that is located just
beyond the northwestern limb of the Moon, is
called Omar Khayyam .

31.  An amazing feat was his calculation of the
year to be 365.24219858156 days long,
which is accurate to the sixth decimal place
 The Jalali calendar was introduced by Omar
Khayyám

32.  Ibn cina was born 980 M in Bukhara (in
present-day Uzbekistan).
 He is one of the famous scientists and Islamic
philosopher who wrote 450 treatise and wide
range of subjects, of around 240 have
survive.

33.  150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on
philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on
medicine.
 His most work is the canon of medicine,
which was a standard medical text at many
medical universities.
 The canon of medicine was used as a text-
book in the universities of Montpellier and
Leuven as late as 1650.

34.  His corpus also includes writing on
philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, geology,
psychology, Islamic theology, logic,
mathematics, physics as well as poetry.
 His aim was to prove the existence of God
and his creation of the world scientifically and
through reason and logic.
 He memorized the entire Quran by the age of
10.

35.  Shahbedin Sohrevardy was born in 1155 M in
Khodabande town of Zanjan provience. He
was founder …
 His works about 50 books. The most famous
of his works is Hekmat-e al-eshraghieh. He
combined wisdom with spiritual in his
method.

36.  He was born in 1572 M in Shiraz.
 He was a Persian Islamic philosopher,
theologian, and mystic who led the Iranian
cultural renaissance in the 17th century.
He was the founder of
transcendental wisdom.

37.  Molla Sadra's original philosophy blended and
transformed different sources—Avicennism,
Suhrawardī's Illuminationist philosophy, Ibn
al-Arabi's Sufi metaphysics, and Shiite
theology—in a more ambitious and
resourceful way than previous Islamic
philosophers had done.
 His works are more than 50 books. One of
the most important of his work is Al-asfar Al-
arbaah

38.  These are some small part of manuments of
Iran. Each of them is very valued because
shows art, culture, architecture and unique
personality of the society.
 Monuments are the mirror of the past and
history of the country and they never be
repeated.

39.  As I show you we have an civilization about 7000
years which represent in our monuments and our
cultural characteristics and scientist.
 I talked about some ancient monuments such as
Burnt city, Chogha Zanbil, persepolise, Arg-e
Bam,and Ctesiphon
 So we should protect our cultural heritage
 which is reflected in old buildings.