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2022-04-15 18:31
Museum devoted to Ardabil nomads under construction
TEHRAN - Construction work has commenced in the ancient town of Germi to establish a special anthropological museum dedicated to the rituals, arts, and the everyday life of tribespeople native to Ardabil province.
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2022-01-24 19:55
Centuries-old tombstone unearthed by flash flood
TEHRAN – A centuries-old tombstone, estimated to date from the Safavid era, has recently been unearthed in a southern Iranian village.
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2021-11-15 20:30
Castle to turn into anthropology museum
TEHRAN – The historical castle of Sardar Afshar in Takab county, northwestern West Azarbaijan province is planned to be turned into an anthropology museum, Takab’s Governor has said.
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2021-09-28 18:45
Ilkhanid-era tombstone discovered in central Iran
TEHRAN – An ancient tombstone, estimated to date from the Ilkhanid era (1256 to 1335), has recently been discovered in one of the surrounding hills near Mahallat, central Iran.
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2021-06-28 18:53
Grab a slice of Iranian traditions at Gilan Rural Heritage Museum
TEHRAN - Gilan Rural Heritage Museum strives to represent traditional, cultural, architectural, and anthropological areas of the northern Iranian province.
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2021-02-05 19:30
Museum of anthropology, cultural heritage to open in northwest Iran
TEHRAN – A local history museum dedicated to the anthropology and cultural heritage of the ancient town of Kowsar and its surroundings will soon open its doors to the public in the northwest Iranian town.
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2021-02-01 21:35
Persian Gulf Regional Museum inaugurated in southern Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian tourism minister Ali-Asghar Mounesan on Monday inaugurated a vast museum of cultural heritage and anthropology in the port city of Bushehr, southern Iran.
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2021-01-09 18:38
Iran seeks UNESCO recognition for millennia-old petroglyphs
TEHRAN- Iran will put forward clusters of its millennia-old petroglyphs as a candidate for inclusion in UNESCO’S World Heritage list.
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2021-01-05 21:41
Anthropology museum, research center under construction in UNESCO-tagged Maymand
TEHRAN –An anthropology museum as well as a research center are under construction in the UNESCO-registered Maymand, a southeastern Iranian village of troglodytes.
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2021-01-03 20:50
Neanderthal tooth put on show in Qazvin museum
TEHRAN - A fossilized tooth, which is amongst the earliest evidence of Neanderthal settlements in the Iranian plateau, has been put on show at a museum in Qazvin, west-central Iran, where the object was discovered in a nearby cave.
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2020-10-09 17:10
Anthropology museum opens in Masuleh
TEHRAN - A museum of anthropology was inaugurated in the tourist village of Masuleh, northern Gilan province, on Tuesday.
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2020-07-21 19:52
Gigantic park of anthropology being built near Tehran
TEHRAN – Construction of a gigantic anthropological park, which turns the spotlight of everyday life, traditions, and rituals of a variety of Iranian tribes, has reached its final phase in Karaj, a city some 30 km westward Tehran.
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2020-06-08 20:30
Once public bathhouse now an anthropological museum
TEHRAN - Once a hammam (public bathhouse) in the town of Jajarm, northeast Iran, the monument has lost its original usage as pile water is ubiquitous in almost every corner of the ancient land. The bathhouse is now an anthropological and cultural heritage museum depicting scenes of the lives of people in the past.
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2020-04-19 19:30
Setting up national museum of anthropology is a necessity: expert
TEHRAN – Establishing a national museum of anthropology in Iran is a necessity to turn the spotlight on all people, local communities and folk cultures, director of Iran’s Anthropological Research Center, has said.
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2019-12-02 18:55
Assyrian cylinder seals unearthed in Iran
TEHRAN – A senior Iranian archaeologist has announced discovery of dozens of cylinder seals, which once belonged to Assyria, kingdom of northern Mesopotamia that became the center of one of the great empires of the ancient Middle East.
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2019-04-26 23:37
Iran to host its largest ever meteorite exhibit
TEHRAN – The largest ever exhibition of meteorites in Iran will open on Sunday at the Museum of Anthropology of the UNESCO-registered Golestan Palace in Tehran.
