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The arched hall of the royal palace, the Taq-e Kesra, towers monumentally over the gigantic ruins of Ctesiphon south of Baghdad. The cinematic reconstruction of the Iwan, the vaulted hall, closed on three sides and open at the front, around which the remaining Sasanian palace from the 6th century is grouped, is a building form that is still used today.
Video: Lengyel Toulouse, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus /Museum für Islamische Kunst
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The Heritage of the Old Kings. Ctesiphon and the Persian Sources of Islamic Art
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