HERITAGE RECORD · 1716

Hegmataneh

埃克巴坦那

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The archaeological remains of ancient Hegmataneh are located in northwestern Iran. Continuously inhabited for nearly three millennia, Hegmataneh provides important and rare evidence of the Medes civilization in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE and later served as a summer capital of Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian rulers.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ696193 ↗

Administrative areaQ28587 · Q187373

WikipediaEcbatana ↗

Chinese Wikipedia埃克巴坦那 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

Cultural archive

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Brief synthesis Hegmataneh is amongst the ancient cities of the Middle East perceived as the capital of the Medes Empire and continued to be one of the most important government seats through the Achaemenid, Parthian, Sasanian, and Islamic periods.

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