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Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society that could upend the accepted narrative of where writing and urban life began.
Persepolis, Old Persian Parsa, or modern Takht-e Jamshid is an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran (Persia), located about 50 km northeast of Shiraz in the Fars region of ...
They were scouting for oil in Iran. They found an ancient temple instead. Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of ...
TEHRAN—Ruins of a centuries-old brick building have currently been discovered after unauthorized excavators dug trenches in the Germi region of Ardabil province, northwest Iran. Initial assessment ...
Desertification can wear down ancient ruins or hide them under dunes—leaving researchers ... A group of Iranian and French researchers studied Iran’s ancient port city of Siraf in 2018 to ...