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Marjane Satrapi

In Memory of Marjane Satrapi
(1969–2026)

The Iran Heritage Foundation is deeply saddened by the passing of Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed Iranian-born author, artist, filmmaker, and cultural commentator whose work introduced millions around the world to the richness and complexity

Glazed Bricks from Western Iran

An article in The Art Newspaper for September concerns a collection of 51 glazed polychrome bricks from the Mannaean site of Qalaichi near Bukan in Western Iran that have recently been returned to Iran from

The High Price of Luxury Trade in the Parthian and Sasanian Periods

In the last decades of the 2nd century BC, envoys from the Han dynasty of China were met on the banks of the Oxus River (modern Amu Darya) by an escort of Parthian cavalry.