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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

National Museum set to host exhibit on recovered Achaemenid tablets

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.

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.

Presidential souvenir: 3,506 Achaemenid clay tableted retuned from U.S.

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.

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.

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.

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.

More than 200 cuneiform tablets were discovered at the site, containing administrative records of the ancient city. )Photograph: Asaad Niazi/AFP/Getty Images)

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.

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.

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.

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.