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2025-01-11 18:11
Zayandeh-Rood’s revival underlined as national heritage
TEHRAN – Isfahan province’s deputy governor-general for political and social affairs, Ayoub Darvishi, has reaffirmed efforts to restore the Zayandeh-Rood River as a national and tourism heritage site.
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2024-08-19 18:00
180,000-year-old child tooth unearthed in Iranian cave
TEHRAN - Archaeologists have discovered a child’s tooth dating back 180,000 years in Qaleh Kord cave, situated in Qazvin, during the fifth season of archaeological excavations at the site.
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2024-05-25 18:16
Half-million-year-old evidence of human settlement found on the Iranian Plateau
TEHRAN - Groundbreaking findings from a team of Iranian and French anthropologists have confirmed that humans inhabited the Iranian Plateau approximately half a million years ago.
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2024-04-13 18:06
Early humans lived on Iranian Plateau for 20,000 years after leaving Africa, study suggests
TEHRAN - Following the exodus from Africa around 70,000 years ago, early humans established a significant presence on what is now known as the Iranian Plateau, according to a new study.
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2023-11-07 17:27
History of Burnt City goes down 300 years earlier than previously thought
TEHRAN - The earliest period of human settlement in the UNESCO-designated Burnt City might have occurred in about 3500 BC, more than 300 years before what was previously thought, an Iranian archaeologist has said.
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2023-11-05 17:30
Unearthing the past: explore exotic graves of Iron Age at Tabriz museum
TEHRAN – A visit to the Iron Age Museum could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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2023-11-01 18:04
Field research investigates early evidence of perfume-making in heart of Iran
TEHRAN – Research commissioned by the Iranian Institute of Anthropology and Culture is investigating history, resources, know-how, and early evidence of perfume-making around the Zagros mountain range in the heart of the Iranian Plateau.
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2023-08-22 21:30
Eighth excavation season to throw new light on 9,000-year-old site near Tehran
TEHRAN – A team of Iranian archaeologists is to commence work on Tepe Ozbaki, a 9,000-year-old site, situated some 80 km from Tehran.
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2023-05-30 18:54
Iranian qanat masterpiece of creative genius, official says
TEHRAN – The Iranian qanat system stands as a masterpiece of creative genius and evidence of a creative civilization that flourished on the Iranian plateau, demonstrating their remarkable achievements, an official with the tourism ministry has said.
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2023-03-04 18:37
Tepe Hissar: a cultural gem linking Mesopotamia to Central Asia
TEHRAN - Tepe Hissar is one of the first systematically excavated Bronze Age settlements in the northern Iranian plateau.
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2022-07-31 20:02
Na’in’s centuries-old bazaar undergoes restoration
TEHRAN - Restoration work has begun on the centuries-old bazaar of Na'in, an oasis town in the central Iranian plateau.
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2022-07-19 18:55
Maymand, a mesmerizing rock refuge settled for millennia
TEHRAN - Thousands of years ago, people in Maymand carved out rocky hillsides to take refuge from the harsh climate of the Iranian plateau.
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2022-06-25 20:30
Nature lovers clean millennia-old cave in Iranian plateau
TEHRAN – A cleaning project has been recently completed on the millennia-old cave of Chal-Nakhjir and its surrounding area in the central province of Markazi, the provincial tourism chief has said.
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2022-06-15 17:15
Archaeologists look for traces of Pleistocene humans on Iranian plateau
TEHRAN –A team of Iranian archaeologists has commenced a survey on the east of the Iranian plateau to find proof of Pleistocene humans, ILNA reported on Wednesday.
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2022-05-27 20:00
Archaeologists start tracing Paleolithic sites on eastern Iranian plateau
TEHRAN – A team of Iranian archaeologists has commenced tracing Paleolithic sites on the eastern sides of the Iranian plateau.