| 3rd Season of Excavation Gets Underway: From Payvand, third season of archaeological excavation gets underway in Takab, West Azarbaijan. |
| 400,000-year-old Stone Tools Discovered in Mazandaran: From Mehrnews, recent discoveries by a team of archaeologists indicate that the coast of the Caspian Sea in Mazandaran Province was home to the earliest hominid habitation in that region. |
| 5000-year-old Clay Collection Discovered in Halil Rud Basin: From Cultural Heritage News Agency, during the construction project for an irrigation structure in Rudbar of Kerman province, experts discovered some 40 objects dating to the third millennium BCE. |
| Ancient Khuzistan: Archeological images. |
| Archaeologists discover 6000-year-old rocky habitation in Jiroft region: From Tehran Times, Iranian archaeologists recently discovered a 6000-year-old rocky habitation with more than 800 cells in the Barez Mountains, east of the Halil-Rud River in southern Kerman Province. |
| Bullae from the Pahlavi Archive at the University of California, Berkeley: Article by Guitty Azarpay. The Pahlavi Archive at Berkeley comprises 260 silk and leather manuscripts, 82 of which still have one or more clay bulla attached. |
| Clock Ticks Away for Salvaging Elamite Site from Dam Flooding - Persian Journal Latest Iran news & Iranian Article News paper: From Persian Journal, the water-filling operation for the Karoun 3 dam, which threatens to submerge historical sites in southwestern Iran, was kicked off Monday, as Iran's cultural heritage officials turned down the invitation to take part in the ceremony. |
| Conference on Iran Shows Scientific Interest in Iranian World: From Payvand, an international congress on "The Iron Age in the Iranian World" was held with "big success" in the historical Belgian city of Ghent this week, IRNA reported from Brussels. |
| Dahaneh-Gholaman is the gate to Iran's history of Sassanid and Islamic eras: Located in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, the city of Dahaneh-Gholaman two kms from Ghal'e-Nau village in the suburb of Zabol is one of the provincial touristic attractions. |
| Darius Ancient Inscription Found in Boushehr Deciphered: From the Persian Journal, archaeologists have succeeded to decipher the text of an old stone tablet found recently in Boushehr, south of Iran. The tablet belongs to Darius the Great, King of Achaemenids. |
| Girl with Silver Earrings Found in the Burnt City: From Iran News, archaeologists working on the historical site of the Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchistan have unearthed for the first time ever the body of a woman with silver earrings remained at sides of her head. |
| History of Ancient Iran: Online versions of texts about ancient Iran. |
| Human Settlement in Iran�s Central Plateau Dates back to 10,000 Years Ago: From Iran News, farmers activities in Togh Tepe of Mazandaran province, resulted in the accidental discovery of the oldest pottery ever found in the area. Studies carried out on the artifacts have shown that humans have lived in the central plateau of Iran since 9 or 10 thousand years ago. |
| In Search of Buddhism along Iran’s Silk Road: From Cultural News Network, a team of Iranian and Japanese experts are planning to carry out surveys along parts of the Silk Road inside Iran’s borders to find evidence of the ancient religion of Buddhism. |
| Iran and France to Conduct Joint Archaeological Studies in Yazd: From Tehran Times, according to head of Yazd cultural heritage and tourism department, Beheshti, the preliminary studies carried out in the Mehriz area of Yazd have provided evidence of the existence of one of the oldest human dwellings in the area. |
| Iran's Sleeping Parthian City to Awaken: Iranian archeologists are seeking for public funding to explore the ruins of a vast urban citadel, left from the Parthian dynasty (247 B.C.E.-226 C.E.), in Khorasan Province |
| Iranian Archeologists to Identify Jiroft Ancient Quarries: From Payvand, archeologists intend to establish the way Iranians mined these quarries over 5,000 years ago and carried the stones to their city, today located in the southern province of Kerman. |
| Iranian Prehistoric Project: Report of an ethnoarchaeological survey in Fars. |
| Jiroft a Key Business Hub 5,000 Years Ago: From Payvand, new archeological and art studies on insignias unearthed in the Iranian ancient site of Jiroft clearly shows that the southern area used to be the most important business nucleus of Persia and its residents had bustling trade ties with people living in other parts of the country. |
| Jiroft Artifact Reveals Influence: From Iranmania, Characters etched on artifacts discovered in the archeological zone around Jiroft have proved that the culture of the area greatly influenced Sumerian civilization. |
| Lafourak Male Skeleton Wears Gold and Silver Earrings: From Iran News, a male skeleton wearing a gold earring on his right ear and a silver one on his left. From a historical graveyard dating to 2800 years ago located in the northern province of Mazandaran. |
| Museum Stumbles on Lost Treasures: From News Telegraph, two 4,500-year-old gold head-dresses from ancient Sumer have been found in a store room at the British Museum where they had lain wrongly labelled for 73 years. |
| Mystery of Daqyanous Treasuries And Extinction Of Ancient Hills In Jiroft: Summary from an article which appeared in the September 8, 2002 issue of the Netiran newspaper. |
| Oldest Iranian Stylus Discovered in Fars Province: From the Persian Journal, oldest Iranian Stylus, dating to the Middle Elamite era, 1550-1000 BC, which were used for inscribing mud tablets, has been discovered from Bondul Tepe, Fars province. |
| Parthia: The Forgotten Empire: Uses Parthian drachmas to illustrate and illuminate the history of the Parthian Empire. |
| Restoration of Neishabour historical site: Deputy Head of Khorassan province Cultural Heritage Department for research Rajab-Ali Labbaf-Khaniki declared here on Wednesday a recently-approved project on restoration of the historical site in the ancient city of Neishabour. |
| The Deh Luran Project: Online exhibit and bibliography of the Research on the Deh Luran Plain, Southwestern Iran. |
| The First Iranians Who Lived on the Iranian Plateu: From the Persian Journal, ancient history of Iran, like many other countries, is believed to be based upon the archeological findings and a mixture of documented myths and information recorded by historians or religious entities of the time. |
| The Persian Expedition: Report of the Persian Expedition to conduct excavations by James Henry Breasted at the remains of Persepolis, an Achaemenid royal administrative center in the province of Fars. |
| University of Chicago Returns Ancient Persian Tablets Loaned by Iran: From University of Chicago News Office, Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian Empire, to the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, the national antiquities department, in the first return of loaned archaeological items there since the 1979 revolution. |
| Western Team Allowed in Iran for Expedition: From Chicago Chronicle, for the first time since 1979, a University archaeological expedition has begun digging in southwest Iran, an area known as Khuzestan. |
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