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2024-12-10 17:15
Plans to safeguard 2800-year-old Urartu inscription announced
TEHRAN – East Azarbaijan’s deputy director for cultural heritage has shed light on ongoing efforts to protect the ancient Urartu-era cuneiform inscription in the Nashtiban region of the northwestern province.
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2024-09-16 17:58
Urartu-era cuneiform inscription vandalized in northwest Iran
TEHRAN - Treasure hunters have vandalized an ancient cuneiform inscription and Iron Age cemetery in East Azarbaijan province, northwest Iran.
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2024-07-22 17:14
Ancient inscriptions, written in Pahlavi scripts, deciphered
TEHRAN – A number of ancient inscriptions, written in Pahlavi scripts, have recently been deciphered at a newly established museum located near the city of Aran-va-Bidgol in the heart of Iran.
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2024-04-20 18:02
Lichens threaten Iran heritage sites; Bisotun leads most severe erosion
TEHRAN - For more than two decades, experts and cultural heritage specialists have been reporting on the crisis of lichen penetration in some of Iran’s cultural heritage sites and monuments.
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2024-02-27 18:03
Preserving regional languages helps fortify standard Persian, linguist says
TEHRAN – “Translation of paramount Persian books to regional languages serves as a testament to the fact that linguistic justice is not a threat but also works in favor of fostering the standard Persian language,” an Iranian linguist has said.
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2023-10-29 17:20
Maritime Silk Road: Discover East Asian inscription with Persian words
TEHRAN – The Galle Trilingual Inscription is a stone tablet that bears an inscription in three languages, Chinese, Tamil, and Persian.
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2023-10-28 17:56
Leather inscriptions dating from Sassanid era discovered in cave
TEHRAN – An archaeological dig conducted in a central Iranian cave has yielded inscriptions carved on leather pieces estimated to date from the Sassanid era (224 CE–651).
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2023-09-30 18:31
Technical committee formed to formulate Ganjnameh protection
TEHRAN—Iran’s tourism ministry has established a technical committee tasked to formulate scientific ways to further protect Ganjnameh from natural and human-made threats.
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2023-06-13 19:40
Persian inscription identified on mosque mihrab in Russia
TEHRAN – A centuries-old inscription bearing a Persian poem has been identified in a mosque located in the Russian city of Derbent situated on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, in present-day Dagestan.
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2023-05-10 18:02
Sassanid inscription bearing prayer for mental health discovered in southern Iran
TEHRAN – A team of cultural heritage experts have found a rack-carved Sassanid inscription that bears prayer for mental health.
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2022-10-18 19:17
Isfahan opens permanent exhibit dedicated to historical inscriptions and stones
TEHRAN—Isfahan’s first permanent exhibition of historical inscriptions and stones has opened to the public, the provincial tourism chief has said.