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Is a series of plaster casts of glazed brick panels from susa that are in the louvre. and these were commissioned by the victoria and albert museum in the 19th century when it was collecting casts for its very famous cast forum, and so on. and they've never actually been on display before. the third section for which i was responsible is dealing with the parthian and sasanian empires. and what i draw your attention to there is some of the magnificently—decorated silver dishes. many of them show the king hunting — but all of them show some elements of zoroastrian iconography symbolism, beca...

Strictly�*s back — but there's controversy as reports suggests that two of the show�*s professional dancers are refusing to get covid jab. now on bbc news, epic iran. it's the biggest exhibition of iranian art and culture in the uk in nearly a century. hundreds of artefacts showcasing one of the world's great civilisations, from 5,000 years ago to the present day. one absolutely spectacular piece is a little gold chariot. and you'll see it consists of a lot of tiny parts which have been soldered together. it's a technological masterpiece. it's hosted by london's victoria and albert museu...

This is a very important part of the exhibition, which links antiquity with the islamic period in a very forceful way. you can call it the first great work of persian literature after the islamic conquest, when persian had begun to be written in the arabic alphabet. it preserved much of the vocabulary and grammar of middle persian, which was the language used by the sasanians. the rulers of islamic iran, from the 14th century onwards, became very interested in the shahnameh. it almost became a necessary part of the equipment of a future ruler, to be given a shahnameh, which provided as a model...

Ruler, the ruler had to have very large stocks of luxury textiles. because it was the custom that, when people came to court — such as an ambassador or a vizier who's done a very, very good job for the ruler — the ruler would present them with a special robe which would be placed over their shoulder. robes of honour were either sold off because they were so valuable, or they were recycled into other objects. we've isolated two in the v&a collection — one of them with a very beautiful 17th—century pattern of flowering plants. but it doesn't survive as a robe of honour, it survives as a ...

Which was the language used by the sasanians. the rulers of islamic iran, from the 14th century onwards, became very interested in the shahnameh. it almost became a necessary part of the equipment of a future ruler, to be given a shahnameh, which provided as a model for the kings of the present based on what had happened in the past. and of course, at the same time, it preserved of the ideas of iran as a country with an enormously long history. in the 19th century, the v&a began to collect evidence for world architecture through photography. but of course, the tile work monuments of isfahan pr...