This
architectural style includes designs from the
Seleucid (310–140 BCE),
Parthian (247 BCE – 224 CE), and
Sassanid (224–651 CE) eras, reaching its apex of development in the Sassanid period.
The Parthi style of architecture appeared after
Alexander the Great's conquest of the
Achaemenid Empire in the 3rd century BCE, and historically includes the Sassanid, Parthian, and post Islamic eras, up to the 9th–10th centuries.[2] The remains of the architectural style of this period are not abundant, and although much was borrowed and incorporated from
Greek designs and methods, architects and builders of this age employed many innovative concepts of their own as well.[3]
Gallery
1824 depiction of
Taq-i Kisra by British explorer.