Allahyari said field investigations have also led to the discovery of an ancient hill and a mining site belonging to the
Sassanid era (224-622 CE).
In AD 226, the eastern part of it fell to the
Sassanid Persians who then built their own empire in long before the birth of Islam.
Under Shapur I's
Sassanid Empire, the water mills on the River Dez were constructed alongside Dezful bridge by roughly 70,000 Roman prisoners in approximately 260 AD, making them some of the oldest water mills of their type in the world.
Another glass case showcases a bowl from the
Sassanid Empire of Persia, next to a statuette, a watchtower model and a funerary figurine, all made of terracotta during the era of the powerful Han dynasty in third century China.
In the 2nd century BC and 3rd century AD, it became the capital of the Neo-Assyrian state of Beth Garmai before this was taken by the
Sassanid empire and became a part of Assuristan.
Persians will never forget their defeat at the hands of Arabs in the Battle of Qadisiya [against the
Sassanid Persian Empire] 1,400 years ago.
Iran's Safawism is a 16th century ideology, which the Sunnis claim is a cover for a
Sassanid Persian Empire defeated by the Arab Army of Khaled ibn ul-Walid who used to be a companion of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century AD.
Islam arrived in Iran 651 when invading Arab armies toppled the mostly Zoroastrian
Sassanid Empire.
The Iranian archeologists discovered
Sassanid and early-Islamic residential strata as well as a number of intact amphoras used in sea trade during the Parthian, Abbasid and early Islamic eras, all referring to the waterway as the Persian Gulf.
Historically, Iraq was the cradle of civilisations and, many centuries later, was where the
Sassanid Persian Empire was defeated by the first Arab Army in Islam under Khaled Ibn al-Walid, a warrior companion of the Prophet Muhammad, in the Battle of Qadessiyah (Iraq).
Did I 'ear Puccini's
Sassanid Odin-assassin 'iccup, Rae?
ISIS literature describes him as "the new Khaled ibn al-Walid" - reference to the Arab commander who defeated the
Sassanid Persian empire in the 7th century battle of Qadessiya (now Iraq), which led to the conversion of Persia from Zoroastrianism to the then new Islam.
