Technology

Persian technology is divided into three categories: Weapons, art, and architecture. Because of Persians wealth in minerals and raw materials they were able to create new objects in each of these categories.

The earliest Persian arms even back to nomadic times consisted of short knives, bows and arrows. By the time Persia had become a civilization under the rule of Darius (the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire), these weapons had evolved to become helmets, shields, daggers, and lance.

The Persians created their most beautiful artwork, the most famous of which was made by the three kings themselves (Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes).

Everybody may think that refrigerators and freezers are inventions of the 20th century but there is historic proof that hundreds of years ago, the ancient Persians had already found a way to store ice in the middle of the dessert and in the middle of summer. Engineers built a type of evaporative cooler that could store ice, even in the middle of the summer. It is called a Yakhcal.

Persia

The name Persia (from the ancient province of Persis; modern Fars, Iran) was given by the Greeks to the entire land occupied by various Iranian tribes from which the Acahemenid dynasty arose. It is the land of present-day Iran and Afghanistan, geographically the Iranian plateau. The earliest inhabitants of this area are only known, at first, from their stone artifacts and, later, their pottery. Paleolithic and Neolithic sites have been found in various parts of the plateau, but distinctive painted pottery appears only in the Chalcolithic Period, about 3000 BC.