Introducing of the Great Wall of Gorgan in GolestanProvince in Iran

The history and archaeology of the ancient and late antique world has long been dominated byEurocentric perspectives. The Roman Empire and its main European and Levantine successor statesare considered the major players, while little prominence is given to regions outside Europe and theMediterranean. Most primary sources represent a western perspective, and vastly more resources havebeen invested in Roman and, to a lesser extent, early Byzantine archaeology than the archaeology ofRome`s eastern neighbors. Such unequal resource allocation has been the result of the history of ouracademic disciplines, each focusing on a specific time period, culture and set of methods applied toexploring it, while largely overlooking the gaps in between. This has led to the archaeology of the lateantique Persian Empire under the Sasanian dynasty (۳rd – ۷th centuries AD) being outside, or at themargins of, the research interest of most scholars of the ancient world: too late for most Near Easternarchaeologists, too early for Islamic archaeologists, too far east for most classical and late antiquearchaeologists and historians [۱]. The physical vesting of Sasanian culture, other than major works ofart, notably Iran`s famous rock reliefs, are a largely untapped resource, as Joel Walker rightly pointout: the archaeology of the Sasanian Empire (۲۲۴-۶۲۴ C.E.) remains a frustratingly underdevelopedfield of study… rigorous comparative study of the empires` material culture (as opposed to its finearts) is still in its infancy [۲].