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2021-04-15 08:51
Police confiscate 254 ancient objects in southern Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian police have seized 254 historical relics from smugglers in the southern Fars province.
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2021-04-11 20:04
80 historical objects confiscated from smuggler in western Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have confiscated a batch of 80 historical objects from a smuggler in western Iran, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage said on Sunday, ISNA reported.
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2021-03-15 20:00
Prehistorical pottery recovered in western Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian police have confiscated a prehistorical piece of earthenware, which had just been unearthed by unauthorized excavators in a village in western Iran.
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2021-03-07 21:53
Prehistorical, Islamic-era relics donated to cultural heritage department
TEHRAN – A total of 16 historical relics, which date back to the prehistorical and early Islamic times, have recently been donated to the cultural heritage and tourism directorate of Kerman province, southeast Iran.
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2021-02-27 19:12
Coronavirus: Iran sets travel restrictions for four provinces
TEHRAN – Restrictions aimed at slowing a surge in coronavirus cases have been set for four Iranian provinces, which have recently been designated as high-risk “red zones”.
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2021-02-22 21:30
Police arrest seven excavators, antique smugglers in northern Iran
TEHRAN – On Sunday evening, Iranian police arrested seven illegal excavators and antique smugglers while digging for historical objects on the outskirts of a tourist village in northern Mazandaran province.
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2021-02-16 22:01
Three excavators arrested in northern Iran
TEHRAN – Three men, part of a gang of illegal excavators, were detained early on Monday while doing some drilling in a rural house in northern Iran.
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2021-02-12 23:20
Millennia-old relics donated to Kerman cultural heritage department
TEHRAN – Two Iranian individuals have recently donated 14 relics, which are estimated to date from the third millennium BC, to a cultural heritage department in the southeastern Kerman province.
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2021-02-03 21:23
Iranian police seize 740 well-crafted fake coins
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have seized 740 fake coins from a gang of antique dealers and smugglers in the ancient town of Namin, northwest Iran.
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2021-02-01 21:32
Illegal construction tore down in ancient Neyshabur
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recently demolished a brick construction that was illegally developing within the legitimate boundaries of ancient Neyshabur in northeast Iran.
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2021-01-20 21:11
Haul of ancient coins confiscated from smugglers
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have confiscated a haul of ancient coins from smugglers during a police operation in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah.
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2021-01-19 20:00
Hundreds of original and fake relics retrieved
TEHRAN – A total of 844 relics, both original and copies, have been recovered from smugglers or illegal diggers in northwestern Ardebil province over the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2020).
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2021-01-12 21:33
Police seize relics including spearheads, seals from dealers
TEHRAN –Iranian authorities have confiscated 145 historical objects from two antique dealers in the town of Pakdasht, near Tehran.
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2021-01-08 20:07
Ancient objects recovered as police bust gang of smugglers
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently busted a gang of antique dealers in southwestern Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province.
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2020-12-29 21:18
Iranian police bust gang of illegal diggers
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently busted a gang of illegal excavators in the historical village of Tang-e Sulak, southwestern Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, the provincial tourism chief has announced.
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2020-12-09 22:37
Blogger arrested over cultural heritage misdeed
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently arrested a blogger on the charge of “destroying” historical objects during his excursion to an ancient remote site in Iran’s southeast Sistan-Baluchestan province.
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2020-11-18 17:40
Iranian police seize ancient relics from smugglers
TEHRAN –A number of historical objects have recently been confiscated from three smugglers in Shiraz, southern Fars province, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage said on Monday, CHTN reported.
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2020-11-06 19:45
Confiscated smuggled relics up fourfold in Mazandaran
TEHRAN – Police in the northern province of Mazandaran has seized 2,044 historical objects from smugglers during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-September 21), showing a fourfold rise compared to the same period last year.
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2020-11-04 20:00
Antique coins, swords, dagger and pistol confiscated from smuggler
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have seized 12 antique objects, including coins, two swords, a dagger, and a pistol, from a smuggler in Quchan, northeastern Khorasan Razavi province.
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2020-10-31 19:30
‘Head’ of Achaemenid soldier found in passenger’s baggage
TEHRAN – A prehistorical bas-relief carving, depicting the head of an Achaemenid soldier, has recently been found in the baggage of a passenger during a routine police investigation near the city of Na’in, central Iran.
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2020-10-30 16:27
Millennia-old coins recovered from grave robber in Tehran
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recently discovered 141 historical coins, which have been estimated to date from the 4th century AH (913 CE – 1009 CE) in Tehran.
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2020-10-12 21:49
Smuggled ancient weapons, ornamentations confiscated
TEHRAN- Iranian authorities have recently seized 30 ancient relics from the home of an illegal smuggler in Eslamabad-e Gharb, western Kermanshah province, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage has said.
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2020-09-18 19:00
Iron-Age relics seized near Tehran
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recently confiscated 67 prehistoric objects, which were kept unlawfully at the home of a smuggler in Malard, Alborz province, some 35 km west of Tehran.
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2020-09-12 19:47
Police confiscate ancient relics from illegal excavators, antique dealers
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recently seized several ancient relics from the home of an illegal excavator in northern Iran. And the objects are estimated to date back to the Parthian and early Islamic eras.
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2020-09-08 19:30
Haul of ancient relics confiscated from smugglers in southern Iran
TEHRAN- Iranian authorities have confiscated a number of historical relics, which are estimated to date back to the Safavid era (1501–1736), from smugglers in Bandar Abbas, the capital city of the southern Hormozgan province.
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2020-09-02 19:00
Millennia-old relics recovered in Zanjan
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently confiscated some historical relics, estimated to date back from 1st millennium BC to the Islamic era, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage has said.
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2020-08-31 19:46
We have to hire 300,000 workers to enhance cultural heritage protection: minister
TEHRAN – Iran’s tourism minister has said that his ministry must hire 300,000 workers in a bid to enhance the protection of cultural heritage sites, relics, and monuments.
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2020-08-30 17:48
Iranian police bust gangs of illegal excavators
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently busted five gangs of illegal diggers and antique dealers in the past month in the northwestern West Azarbaijan province.
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2020-08-26 20:00
Police bust gang trading historical objects online
TEHRAN- Iranian authorities have recently busted a smuggling gang that was illegally trading ancient relics online in northern Mazandaran province.
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2020-08-24 19:00
Police seize over 100 historical relics in southeastern Iran
TEHRAN- A total of 110 historical objects have been confiscated in the southeastern Kerman province since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year 1399 (March 20), a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage has said.
