Prehistory: The Neanderthals from at least 100,000 years ago existed in Greater Iran during the Pleistocene and Pliocene eras. Modern human artifacts were found to have existed at least from 9000 B.C.E. This was before the civilizations of Elam and the migration of Indo-Iranians into the area in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., giving Persia its history and character.
Art
From The moment, some 3000 years ago, when an ingenious artist shaped and painted the magnificent bridge-spouted vessels at Tepe Sialk to the time when master craftsmen carved the famous Achaemenian relief’s at Persepolis and on into the Islamic era when sophisticated glassware and ceramics were made in the kilns of Ray, Gorgan and Nishapur art has become an inseparable part of Iranian life.