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2024-10-11 17:12
Museum chief sheds light on showcased Achaemenid tablets recently repatriated from U.S.
TEHRAN - Jebrael Nokandeh, director of the National Museum of Iran, has provided detailed insights into the 30 recently repatriated Achaemenid tablets currently on display at the prestigious museum.
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2024-10-02 17:38
Recently recovered Achaemenid cablets to go on view at National Museum
TEHRAN – Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Minister Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri announced that a collection of Achaemenid-era clay tablets, recently returned from the United States, will soon be unveiled at the National Museum in Tehran.
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2024-09-27 17:59
Souvenir of New York: 1100 Achaemenid clay tablets returned home
TEHRAN – On Thursday, 1100 Achaemenid-era clay tablets were returned to Iran from the United States, marking the sixth batch of such historical artifacts brought back to the ancient country.
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2024-05-18 18:28
Recovered Achaemenid tablets from U.S. unveiled at National Museum
TEHRAN - A significant section of Achaemenid tablets, lately recovered from the United States, was unveiled today at the National Museum of Iran.
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2024-04-22 18:18
Clay sculpture in Bronze-Age site restored
TEHRAN – A team of cultural heritage experts has recently restored an ancient earthen sculpture excavated from Konar Sandal, a Bronze-Age site in Iran’s Jiroft region of Kerman province, southern Iran.
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2023-12-17 17:23
National Museum set to host exhibit of recovered Achaemenid tablets
TEHRAN – The National Museum of Iran is getting prepared to host a special exhibition of Achaemenid tablets which were returned home after nearly 90 years.
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2023-11-27 16:48
Achaemenid tablets recovered from U.S.: when will they be unveiled?
TEHRAN - More than two months have passed since the recovery of 3506 Achaemenid tablets, and the time for their unveiling has not yet been determined. However, the director of the National Museum of Iran announced their imminent display in this museum soon.
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2023-09-21 21:39
Presidential souvenir: 3,506 Achaemenid tablets returned from U.S.
TEHRAN—This evening, when Iran’s presidential jet touched down in Tehran, it brought the fourth batch of Achaemenid clay tablets from the U.S., where they had been kept on loan for nine decades.
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2023-08-22 19:08
Iran says U.S. will return thousands of ancient tablets after nine decades
TEHRAN—On Monday, Iran’s deputy cultural heritage minister said the United States will return thousands of Achaemenid clay tablets to Iran within months.
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2023-06-10 20:54
Archaeologists use AI to read ancient Mesopotamian texts
TEHRAN – A system of AI algorithms has been created by archaeologists from the University of Bologna that can locate previously undiscovered archaeological sites in the southern Mesopotamian plain.
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2023-05-08 19:04
Elamite figurines unearthed in farming land near Susa
TEHRAN – Fragments of two clay figurines have recently been discovered in a farming land situated near the UNESCO-registered Susa, southwest Iran.
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2023-02-19 21:00
Archaeologists hail find of Sumerian palace in southern Iraq
TEHRAN –Archaeologists have recently discovered the remains of a lost Sumerian palace in the ancient city of Girsu in southern Iraq.
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2023-02-06 19:17
Linguists shed new light on Gilgamesh epic using AI tool
TEHRAN - Linguists at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Germany’s Institute for Assyriology say they have created an artificial intelligence (AI) bot to help piece together and decipher illegible fragments of ancient Babylonian texts. “The Fragmentarium” is the name given to it.
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2022-12-30 19:45
Burnt City: archaeologists to re-excavate site Elamite tablet unearthed last year
TEHRAN - An archaeological team is to conduct a follow-up excavation on a site in the UNESCO-registered Burnt City, where an Elamite clay tablet was unearthed last year.
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2022-12-21 18:59
Iran forms working group to return looted artifacts
TEHRAN - Iran’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts has formed a working group to pursue the long-awaited return of looted artifacts, including the remnants of Achaemenid clay tablets that are on loan from Iran to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago since 1935.
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2022-07-03 18:49
U.S. to return another batch of Achaemenid tablets to Iran
TEHRAN – The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is getting prepared to return another batch of the Achaemenid tablets to the government of Iran after some 87 years of being on loan.
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2022-05-27 19:04
Translation of millennia-old cuneiform tablets unveiled
TEHRAN - The translation of four millennia-old cuneiform tablets has recently been unveiled in a cultural heritage museum located in central Iran.
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2022-05-22 19:04
Achaemenid tablets returned to Persepolis for public show
TEHRAN – A selection of Achaemenid clay tablets, which were on loan from Iran to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago since 1935, has recently been put on show in the UNESCO-registered Persepolis.
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2022-03-15 22:38
Iran seeks to recover smuggled relics from U.S., France, England, Hungary, and Norway
TEHRAN – The Islamic Republic of Iran seeks to bring back some 100 relics that have been smuggled into the U.S., France, England, Hungary, and Norway.
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2021-12-24 18:03
Elamite clay tablet unearthed in mysterious Burnt City
TEHRAN – A team of Iranian, Italian, and Serbian archeologists has unearthed an Elamite clay tablet inside the Burnt City, a rare discovery that gives subtle clues about the interaction between the eastern and western sides of the Iranian plateau during prehistorical times.
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2021-11-30 19:07
Elamite clay tablet discovered in southwest Iran
TEHRAN – A clay tablet, estimated to date from the Elamite era (c. 2700 – 539 BC), has recently been discovered in southwest Iran.
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2021-09-21 20:00
Bushehr to set up digital database of ancient potteries
TEHRAN – A digital database of ancient potteries, clay tablets, and their fragments will be established in Bushehr province, southwestern Iran.
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2021-09-15 18:32
By Afshin Majlesi
Achaemenid workers paid silver for wages, study on clay tablets finds
TEHRAN – A fresh study on inscribed clay tablets, which were used for the treasury archives of the Achaemenid Empire, has revealed workers of the mighty kingdom were paid silver coins for their wages.