TEHRAN -- “The Glory of Persia” exhibition, which toured five Japanese cities for the past year, has returned home.

The exhibit was held in Tokyo, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, and Osaka.
A total of 210 artifacts dating from the 5th millennium BC to the end of the Sassanid era collected from the National Museum of Iran (NMI), the Reza Abbasi Museum, and the Azarbaijan and Persepolis museums were displayed in the exhibition.
The objects were selected by Iranian experts at the request of the Japanese organizers in line with an agreement signed with the NMI curator in Tehran.
On average, over 2000 people visited the exhibition every day.
The exhibition had been scheduled to travel to South Korea next, but Iranian officials were not yet prepared, so it was decided that it would return to Iran.
The National Museum of Iran will host “The Glory of Persia” for the month of December and then it will head to South Korea in January 2008.
China has expressed interest in the exhibit, and it may travel there after its run in South Korea