Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World - Exhibition Highlights

$3.99 at The Getty Museum.

This illustrated book highlights thirty-five magnificent objects featured in the exhibition Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World.   For over twelve hundred years, Persia, the historical name for ancient Iran, was the dominant nation of western Asia, with three successive dynasties—the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian—controlling an empire of vast and unprecedented size, extending at its height from the borders of Greece to northern India. No understanding of ancient Greek and Roman culture is…