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Iranian-Bookmaking

Bookmaking in Iran

Manuscripts started to be introduced to Iranian arts during Sassanians by some Manicheans, Christians and Jews. Some books bound by Manicheans, around 8th  and 9th centuries A.D., were found at Turkistan region in China. After Chinese had invented paper, it was used in Samarqand in 750 A.D. In Baghdad, paper started to be produced in [...]

elamite-architecture

Architecture of Iran

With a history of thousands of years, Iranian architecture has appeared as a variety from peasant huts, teahouses and garden pavilions to some of the most beautiful and majestic structures the world has ever seen. Background of Iranian Architecture The available materials dictated major forms. Since antiquity, Iranians compressed primitive pise-molded mud as solidly as [...]