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2020-12-20 19:42
Switzerland returns smuggled antiquities to Iran
TEHRAN – A total of 49 works of ancient art that had been looted and smuggled out of Iran some four decades ago have recently been returned home with the aid of Swiss officials.
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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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2020-06-21 01:15
Millennia-old relics confiscated in northwest Iran
TEHRAN – A batch of prehistorical relics, estimated to date from the time of Mannaeans in the early 1st millennium BC, has recently been seized from an antique dealer near the city of Bukan, West Azarbaijan province, northwest Iran.
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2020-04-29 22:35
Millennia-old goblet to go on show
TEHRAN – A millennia-old goblet, unearthed last year, will be put on show at a museum in Khalkhal, one of the historical cities of the northwestern Ardebil province.
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2019-05-08 19:45
Thousands-year-old vase to be unveiled in Ardebil
TEHRAN – On May 18, concurrent with the International Museum Day, a three-thousand-year-old silver vase, which was recently found in Iran’s Ardebil province, will be unveiled in museum exhibition, provincial tourism chief has said.
