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2021-02-20 19:30
Iranian archaeologists begin demarcation project on Bronze Age site
TEHRAN – A team of archaeologists and cultural heritage experts has recently commenced a thorough demarcation project on a Bronze Age site in southeast Sistan-Baluchestan province.
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2021-02-15 22:49
Archaeologists start survey at Bronze Age site southeast Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian archaeologists have commenced a survey at Konar Sandal, a Bronze Age site, which is situated in Jiroft plain of Kerman province, southeast Iran.
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2021-02-08 21:04
Iranian police seize millennia-old jug from smuggler
TEHRAN –An earthenware jug, estimated to date back to 5,000 years before the Bronze Age, has recently been confiscated from a smuggler in the western province of Lorestan, a senior police official has announced.
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2020-12-26 21:48
Jiroft culture: a ‘missing link’ of the Bronze Age
TEHRAN - Jiroft, a fertile plain situated in Iran’s Kerman province, is a splendid cradle of civilization, which dates from the Early Bronze Age (late 3rd millennium BC). Geological factors have led to it being overlooked for years by tourists and archeologists, who have generally been more interested in Mesopotamia some 1,000 km away.
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2020-12-09 22:36
Bronze Age relics, sediment discovered in northwest Iran
TEHRAN – Archaeologists have recently discovered arrays of relics and sediment estimated to date from the Bronze Age in an excavation conducted at Tappeh Gerdi-Gouran in northwest Iran.
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2020-11-03 17:58
Archaeological survey resumed at ancient hill with Bronze Age relics northwest Iran
TEHRAN – The second archaeological survey has recently commenced at Tappeh Gerdi-Gouran months after the ancient mount situated in Iran’s northwestern Piranshahr county yielded relics and vestiges from the Bronze Age.
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2020-10-01 01:30
Treasures of Iran National Museum: Stone weight linked to Jiroft and Bronze Age culture
TEHRAN - During the Middle Bronze Age, the Iranian Plateau experienced a short fluorescence of urbanism. Urban centers on the plateau, including Shahr-e Sokhteh, Hissar, Yahya, Shahdad, and Jiroft, were linked through an exchange network that connected the plateau with Central Asia, the southern coast of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman, Elam, and Mesopotamia.
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2020-09-27 21:16
192 archaeological sites, dating from Stone, Copper and Bronze ages, identified in western Iran
TEHRAN – A total of 192 archeological sites and human settlements, dating back to various epochs including the Stone Age, Copper Age, and Bronze Age and the Neolithic, have been identified during a recent archaeological survey in Lorestan province, western Iran.
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2020-09-09 19:20
Nicaraguan envoy visits National Museum of Iran, urges deepening cultural ties
TEHRAN - Nicaraguan Ambassador to Iran Isaac Lenin Bravo Jaen on Wednesday paid a visit to the National Museum of Iran, discussing ways with the museum’s director Jebrael Nokandeh to broaden mutual cultural ties.
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2020-09-02 22:03
Protective measures planned for Neolithic site in west-central Iran
TEHRAN – Tepe Sarab, a Neolithic-era human settlement in west-central Iran, will be provided with some protective measures based on a periodic maintenance schedule.
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2020-08-17 20:00
Kuhdasht cave has ample evidence of prehistorical dwellers: archaeologist
TEHRAN - Kuhdasht cave in the western province of Lorestan bears ample evidence of prehistorical dwellers and it has vast potential to be a tourism hub, an Iranian archaeologist has said.
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2020-08-15 22:40
Archaeological survey sheds new light on ancient societies in southeast Iran
TEHRAN – Archaeologists have discovered new evidence of prehistorical architecture and pottery belonged to societies once lived across Sefidkuh in Makran region, southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
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2020-08-14 21:54
By Afshin Majlesi
The absolutely magnificent ‘Gold Bowl of Hasanlu’: Sixty-three years later
TEHRAN – Sixty-three years ago, an Iranian man, named Emamqoli Mohammadi Hasanluei, unearthed a millennia-old gold bowl in the debris of a burned building, part of the major architectural complex at Teppe Hasanlu near the city of Naghadeh in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan, a short distance south of Lake Urmia.
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2020-08-02 21:19
Stratigraphy study reveals vestiges of Iron, Bronze, Copper, and Neolithic ages in northern Iran
TEHRAN – A recent stratigraphy study has revealed historical vestiges dating back to various eras of history including Iron Age, Bronze Age, Copper Age, and Neolithic era at Touq Tepe, a historic region in northern Mazandaran province, bordering the Caspian Sea.
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2020-07-16 00:33
Open-air museum being set up featuring millennia-old relics in northeast Iran
TEHRAN – A new round of restoration work is due to commence on Tepe Rivi, which has so far yielded magnificent remains of the Bronze Age up to the Sassanid period.
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2020-07-08 20:00
Restoration project starts on Bronze-Age objects found in northeast Iran
TEHRAN – A restoration and rehabilitation project has been commenced on 20 Bronze-Age relics which have recently been excavated by a team of Iranian and German archaeologists at Tepe Rivi, an ancient hill in northeastern North Khorasan province.
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2020-07-07 01:03
A peek into Bronze-Age Tepe Gariran, a gateway to the “Old Routes of Western Iran”
TEHRAN – In 1931, the renowned British archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862 – 1943) surveyed Tepe Gariran in western Iran along with several others across the ancient land. His views were published in November 1969 in a book titled “Old Routes of Western Iran: Narratives of an Archaeological Journey”.
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2020-06-10 18:28
Excavations reveal rare find of Bronze Age culture in Iran
TEHRAN – Iran has recently unearthed a rare Bronze Age culture, related settlements and relics following to rounds of excavation in a plain near the north-central city of Qom.
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2020-06-08 18:26
Ardebil museum displaying 5,000 years of life in Iranian plateau
TEHRAN – Ardebil Archeology Museum offers the enthusiastic visitors a tour of 5,000 years of history and culture.
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2020-04-25 21:48
Jiroft, a magnificent cradle of civilization
TEHRAN – The discovery of the magnificent Jiroft site came by accident in the very early 21st century when rounds of heavy flood along the Halil River swept the topsoil off thousands of previously unknown tombs and led to the discovery of many artifacts believed by archeologists to belong to the Early Bronze Age (late 3rd millennium BC).
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2020-04-12 20:30
Millennia-old bronze stamp recovered in northeast Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have confiscated a millennia-old bronze stamp in Naqab village, northeastern North Khorasan province, CHTN reported on Sunday.
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2020-03-04 20:57
Excavations suggest 6000-year-old administrative system in Iran
TEHRAN – Relics including seals, which have newly been unearthed in southeastern Kerman province, suggest that an administrative management system was practiced some 6000 years ago in the country.
