History of *SAFFRON *and utilizing it by human archaism more than 3500 years. Zarperan or SAFFRON is a spice (seasoning) drive from the dried stigma of the zarperan flower and historically it has been among the most expensive seasonings of the world; it has been used as seasoning, color, perfume and medicine.
The roots and origin of Zarperan is endemic of south west Asia and after that it was cultivated in Greek for the first time. Nowadays Iran is counted the largest producer of SAFFRON in the world and almost nine out of ten amount of world’s saffron is cultivated in Iran.
From the era of achaemenian Iranians were improved in the fields of elixir and pharmaceutics but the one thing that is shown in evidence is the potion they’ve served the heads of the estate, this potion was made from SAFFRON, cardamom, cinnamon and other spices and attributed divertimento, jollity and reinforcement.
Saffron was also used in a bread that was served to the quests of the court, Taftoons(kind of bread) and soft round loaves of bread that was made of 3 kind of exquisite wheats from Greek and Egypt and 3 sort of grain and black wheat.
it’s worth to mention that achaemenian introduced lot of herbs to other nations that were under their ascendancy, achaemenian introduced sesame to Egypt and brought rise to Mesopotamia. Some of the historical documents indicates that they used kitbags made from the skin of sheep for trading or transferring saffron in Iran.
The lithographer of the Persepolis shows the parties of Iranian kinfolks delegacy and achaemenian subsidiary nations carrying selected best and valuable products of their land, as a token to Dariush the ruler of lands and they presented saffron and special potion.