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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 20:30
Rasht museum documents 5,000 historical coins
TEHRAN – A total of 5,000 historical coins being kept at Rasht Museum of Anthropology in northern Gilan province have been documented.
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2020-09-07 21:53
Collector donates Sassanid silver coins to national museum
TEHRAN – An Iranian collector has donated over 50 silver coins dating back to the Sassanid era (224 CE–651) to the Astan Quds Razavi Museum, a vast cultural heritage exhibition located in the holy shrine complex of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad, northeast Iran.
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2020-07-18 22:14
Millennia-old coins recovered from antique dealers in Tehran
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have confiscated 750 coins, which are estimated to date back to the 1st millennium BC, from illegal antique dealers in Tehran province.
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2020-07-14 18:23
Newly unearthed workshops may push back history of Isfahan by millennia
TEHRAN – Archaeologists have unearthed the ruins of two workshops, estimated to date from the Parthian era (247 BC – 224 CE), in Isfahan in a significant discovery that may push back the history of the central Iranian city in time by millennia.
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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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2020-05-18 19:19
Historical coin found in ancient port city southern Iran
TEHRAN – A historical coin, dating from 1835 CE, has recently been found in the southern port city of Siraf while a databank was being established for fragments of centuries-old ceramics and potteries discovered through years of excavations in the ancient region.
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2020-05-15 19:30
Iranian police seize historical objects from smuggler
TEHRAN – A number of historical objects have recently been confiscated from a smuggler in Neyshabur, northeastern Khorasan Razavi province, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage said on Thursday, CHTN reported.
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2020-05-01 20:30
‘Gateway of the Slaves’: a millennia-old mudbrick town in southern Iran
TEHRAN – Thanks to the shifting of sand dunes, foundations of forgotten buildings and relics across the globe are uncovered time after time.
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2019-11-30 19:21
Iranian police seize ancient relics from smuggler
TEHRAN – A number of ancient relics, estimated to date from prehistoric times to the [early] Islamic era, have recently been confiscated from a smuggler in Nahavand, Hamedan province, west-central Iran.
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2019-11-24 20:40
Timurid-era relics seized from a smuggler in Iran
TEHRAN – A haul of ancient relics, which is estimated to date back to the Timurid-era (1370–1507), has recently been confiscated from a smuggler in Zanjan, west-central Iran.
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2019-11-22 17:58
Over 2,000 ancient coins recovered by Iranian police
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recently seized over 2,000 ancient coins from five smugglers and antique dealers, who were illegally keeping the relics in a hideout in Mashhad, northeast Iran.
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2019-07-29 19:37
Ancient coins, antiquities seized in southwest Iran
TEHRAN - Iranian authorities have recently confiscated tens of historical coins and relics from two suspects in Ramshir, southwestern Khuzestan province.
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2019-07-13 21:34
Parthian, Safavid-era coins seized in northeast Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recently confiscated four historical coins from two smugglers in Bojnourd, the capital of North Khorasan province.
