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2021-09-05 22:00
Historical manuscripts and books restored in Lorestan museum
TEHRAN – Tens of historical manuscripts, rare books, and paper documents have been restored by a team of cultural heritage experts in Lorestan province.
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2021-08-24 21:00
Workshop launched to restore statues at Tehran palace complex
TEHRAN – On Tuesday, a group of cultural heritage experts and sculptors commenced work to restore arrays of historical statutes and busts that are installed on the premises of the Sa’dabad Cultural-Historical Complex in northern Tehran.
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2021-06-25 17:57
Inclusive restoration begins on Sassanid fortress in northwest Iran
TEHRAN – A comprehensive restoration project has been commenced on Qaleh Kohneh, a Sassanid-era (224 CE–651) fortress, and its premises situated in Meshkinshahr county of Ardebil province in northwest Iran.
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2021-06-23 20:17
Work starts to restore and protect ancient bazaar
TEHRAN – A project has been launched to restore and protect one of the ancient labyrinth marketplaces of Iran: the Bazaar of Gheisariyeh.
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2021-06-13 16:51
$1.1m allocated to restore Ardebil historical bazaar
TEHRAN –A budget of 46 billion rials (about $1.1 million at the official exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) has been allocated to restore the Seljuk-era (1037–1194) bazaar of Ardebil, which is situated in northwest Iran.
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2021-05-25 21:13
30 historical sites, monuments under restoration across Sistan-Baluchestan
TEHRAN – Restoration work is currently underway on some 30 historical sites and monuments, which are dotted across the lesser-known Sistan-Baluchestan province.
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2021-05-25 21:12
Friday mosque of Meybod being restored to former glory
TEHRAN – An extensive restoration work has recently been commenced on the centuries-old Friday mosque of Meybod, which is named after the oasis city in central Iran.
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2021-05-14 17:55
Friday mosque of Damghan undergoes restoration
TEHRAN – A new restoration work has been commenced on the centuries-old Friday mosque of Damghan, which stands tall in the north-central Iranian city.
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2021-05-10 17:23
UNESCO-registered Gonbad-e Qabus prepared for restoration
TEHRAN – A team of cultural heritage experts has commenced a detailed examination of the UNESCO-registered Gonbad-e Qabus as a prerequisite for the restoration of the millennium-old tower.
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2021-05-05 17:09
Persepolis restorers start work on Seljuk-era inscription
TEHRAN – A team of cultural heritage restorers from the UNESCO-registered Persepolis has commenced work on a Seljuk-era (1037–1194) inscription, which is located in Khorramabad, the capital of Lorestan province.
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2021-04-28 21:39
Experts clean famed bas-relief in southern Tehran
TEHRAN – A team of cultural heritage experts has cleaned the well-known 19th-century bas-relief, which is carved on a rock face in Cheshmeh-Ali, southern Tehran.
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2021-04-15 08:50
40 prehistoric, ancient relics restored to closest original states
TEHRAN – A total of 40 Iranian relics, which date from the prehistorical times to the Islamic era, have recently been restored to their closest original states.
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2021-04-07 09:30
Batch of Sassanid coins restored in southeastern Iran
TEHRAN – A batch of Sassanid coins were restored at a cultural heritage laboratory in Iran’s southwestern Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province over the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), the deputy provincial official said on Tuesday.
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2021-04-04 19:37
Vali-e Asr St., longest in West Asia, being prepared for possible UNESCO registration
TEHRAN – Over the past years, Tehran’s Vali-e Asr Street, famed as the longest in West Asia, has undergone countless maintenance works as a prerequisite for a possible UNESCO registration.
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2021-01-31 21:54
Restoration project to revive ancient monuments on Silk Road
TEHRAN – Iran’s Revitalization and Utilization Fund for Historical Places have launched a development scheme, based on which arrays of centuries-old monuments would be revived along the ancient Silk Road.
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2021-01-18 19:12
Iranian province says ready to help restore cultural heritage in war-torn Karabakh
TEHRAN – Tourism chief of Iran’s East Azarbaijan said on Monday the province could soon start restoration of cultural heritage sites and monuments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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2021-01-12 21:32
Magnificent Taq Kasra to be restored by Iranian budget, expertise
TEHRAN – Iran is set to conduct an urgent restoration project on Taq Kasra, a Sassanid-era Persian masterpiece of architecture, which was collapsed partly in modern Iraq earlier this month.
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2021-01-11 21:38
Iranian artists, heritage enthusiasts sign petition demanding salvage of masterpiece in Iraq
TEHRAN – Hundreds of Iranian artists, architects, and cultural heritage enthusiasts have signed a petition demanding an urgent restoration of Taq Kasra, a Sassanid masterpiece of architecture, which was collapsed partly in modern Iraq earlier this month.
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2020-12-27 19:47
Tehran’s City Theater Complex to be demarcated
TEHRAN – Tehran’s City Theater Complex, which is widely considered as the sole professional center of theater in Iran, is scheduled to be demarcated by the end of the current Iranian calendar year 1399 (March 2022).
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2020-12-23 19:38
Bushehr reinforcing tourism structures in long-lasting recession
TEHRAN – The cultural heritage and tourism department of Bushehr, like many other Iranian provinces, has commenced reinforcing travel-related structures during a prolonged recession resulted from the coronavirus pandemic.
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2020-12-02 22:38
Seb Castle reigns magnificent again
TEHRAN – Seb Castle reigns magnificent again over an ancient Iranian village it is named after.
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2020-11-27 22:05
Restoration comes to end on Zanjan mosque
TEHRAN – The second phase of a new restoration project has been completed on Zanjan’s Chehel Sotoun Mosque, provincial tourism chief has said.
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2020-11-04 18:36
Neyshabour labyrinthine, historical bazaar to be restored
TEHRAN – The labyrinthine and historical bazaar of the city of Neyshabour, northeastern Khorasan Razavi province, is to be restored to regain its former glory.
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2020-10-14 20:01
Wind towers, reminiscent of novel Persian architecture, being restored in Qeshm
TEHRAN – Centuries-old wind towers, which are reminiscent of innovative Persian architecture in oasis towns or scorching places, are being restored by a team of cultural heritage experts in Laft neighborhood of Qeshm Island, southern Hormozgan province.
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2020-10-09 18:01
Levelled by earthquake: restoration of giant UNESCO-tagged Bam Citadel 80% complete
TEHRAN – The overall restoration of the massive Bam Citadel, a massive mud-brick stronghold in southeast Iran, which was totally flattened by an earthquake in 2003, is now eighty percent complete.
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2020-10-04 21:26
Islamic-era engraved potteries unearthed in Iran
TEHRAN – A number of centuries-old engraved potteries and fragments, many of which unglazed, have recently been unearthed during a restoration project at an ancient site in western Kermanshah province.
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2020-09-27 21:17
Restorers launch project at Tehran’s UNESCO-tagged palace
TEHRAN – A team of restorers and cultural heritage experts have commenced working on some tile work that covers the exterior walls of Golestan Palace located in downtown Tehran, adjacent to the Grand Bazaar of the Iranian capital.
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2020-09-20 23:18
Centuries-old watermill in Tehran being restored for tourism
TEHRAN – A centuries-old watermill, which is of high importance when it comes to the history of agriculture in southwest Tehran, is being restored to attain its former glory, and to be a tourist destination in a semi-arid landscape.
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2020-09-01 20:30
Wooden pulpit of Ilkhanid mosque being restored
TEHRAN - A restoration project has been commenced on a minbar (pulpit) of a mosque in Semnan province, which dates back to the Ilkhanid era (1256–1353).
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2020-08-25 18:49
UNESCO-tagged hydraulic ensemble to be dredged
TEHRAN – A dredging project has started at parts of Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, a UNESCO-registered ensemble in southwest Iran, which is known globally as a ‘masterpiece of creative genius’.
