Jiroft

Scorpions flank a human figure with hoofed feet who has caught two cheetahs by their tails, on a chlorite artifact recovered from Jiroft.(Photo: Pejman Akbarzadeh/Persian Dutch Network)

2021-07-17 17:55

Jiroft: the story of how Iran became a cradle of civilization

TEHRAN – Until the very early 21st century, no one had ever dreamed that a refined forgotten culture could re-emerge from the sands of a remote and arid region in southeast Iran.

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.

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.

2021-01-10 21:12

Replica of prehistorical ‘alchemy’ vessel built by Iranian potters

TEHRAN – A group of Iranian researchers and potters has reconstructed a replica of a prehistorical vessel, which is believed to be used for alchemy, a form of speculative hypothesis tried to transform base metals such as lead or copper into silver or gold and to discover a cure for disease and a way of extending life.

2020-12-02 18:02

Historical relics recovered from smugglers in Kerman

TEHRAN-A total of 35 historical objects have recently been confiscated from smugglers in Kerman province, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage has said.

2020-11-23 20:00

Five historical relics donated to Kerman cultural heritage department

TEHRAN – Residents of Kerman province have recently donated five objects with historical values to the cultural heritage and tourism department of the southwestern Iranian province.

2020-11-20 18:07

Ancient clay figurines, dagger recovered from smugglers

TEHRAN –A total of 32 historical objects have been confiscated from two smugglers in the village of Esfandagheh, near Jiroft, an ancient city in the southeastern province of Kerman.

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.

2020-09-02 20:26

French archaeologist Geneviève Dollfus, famed for extensive Iranian studies, dies at 82

TEHRAN - French archaeologist Geneviève Dollfus, who conducted extensive excavations in southwest Iran, has died aged 82.

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).