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» 3rd Season of Excavation Gets Underway - From Payvand, third season of archaeological excavation gets underway in Takab, West Azarbaijan.
» 6000-Year Old Rocky Domiciles in Meimand - From Hamshari, the village of Meimand with its architectural characteristics covering an area of 200,000 square meters has recently been recorded as a national monument.
» Ancient Gold Coins Found in Shiraz - When the city gas personnel where digging the ground in Neyriz, some 222kms to the south of Shiraz to lay city gas pipelines they noticed a number of ancient gold coins buried inside a vessel.
» Ancient Khuzistan - Archeological images.
» Archaeological Evcavations and Research at Tal-e Malyan - Anshan, a great city, comparable to Elamite Susa and the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia in size and importance.
» Archaeology in Iran Puts Perceptions in Place - From the Daily Star, Iranian archaeologists have continued excavations throughout the country, exploring periods stretching from the Palaeolithic to Islamic times, at major sites such as Susa, Tappeh Sialk and the Masjid-e-Jomieh in Esfahan.
» Bakhtiari Archaeological Finds - Short description with images of Mesopotamian and Elamite finds in Bakhtiari.
» 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.
» 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.
» History of Ancient Iran - Online versions of texts about ancient Iran.
» Iranian Prehistoric Project - Report of an ethnoarchaeological survey in Fars.
» 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.
» London and Paris Markets Flooded with Looted Iranian Antiquities - From thr Art Newspaper, in January 2001 a group of Iranians from Jiroft in the southwestern province of Kerman stumbled upon an ancient tomb. Inside they found a hoard of objects decorated with highly distinctive engravings of animals, mythological figure
» 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 - From Persian Morning Daily, Jiroft, in southeastern Iran, is one of the ancient centers of Iranian civilization comprised of archaic sites dating back to the third millennium BC up to the Middle Ages of the Islamic era, such as Matoutabad and Riganbar dis
» Parthia: The Forgotten Empire - Uses Parthian drachmas to illustrate and illuminate the history of the Partian 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.
» Rhagae - A short description of the religious center in ancient Media.
» The Chogha Mish Project - Excavations at Chogha Mish between 1961 and 1978.
» The Deh Luran Project - Online exhibit and bibliography of the Research on the Deh Luran Plain, Southwestern Iran.
» 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.
» The Tall-e Bakun Project - Report on the excavations at Tall-e Bakun B by Alexander Langsdorff and Donald McCown in 1932, and later in 1937 by Eric Schmidt and McCown on behalf of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
» 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.