Zawiyeh Hill of Iran, Collection Point of Metalworkers’ Art from Various Civilizations

Trading the Iron in the first millennium turned the north and west northern part of Iran to a commercial hub in which Scythians were the pioneers of the business. The art pieces of metalwork discovered in ancient Zawiyeh hill located in Kurdistan, Iran were an important part of the new civilization which refreshed this art. The metalwork art of ancient Zawiyeh hill as a fusion of Assyrian, Scythians, Urartian and Iyoni metalwork arts tries to use different artistic styles with evolutionary aims which could be a preface to new art style for metalwork art in Iran’s Achaemenids and Medes who were from Aryans regarded as nomadic tribes. The pieces remained in the hill including half-moon shaped breastplate, golden belt and silver plate are all regarded as fusion art pieces which have been collected in a certain place. In a word, the treasure of Zawiyeh is a collection of all artistic cultures of the region.