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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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2023-10-20 18:00
Archaeological work sheds new light on ruins believed to date from Urartu epoch in northwest Iran
TEHRAN – A team of archaeologists in northwest Iran has unearthed parts of a ruined fortress, which is estimated to date from the Kingdom of Urartu, an Iron Age realm once extended over the modern frontiers of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Armenia.
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2023-08-18 19:10
Turkish archaeologist highlights Urartian settlements in northwest Iran
TEHRAN—Dr. Erkan Konyar, professor of archeology at Istanbul University, has delivered a lecture on Urartian settlements in northwest Iran, turning the spotlight on the ancient country once centered in the mountainous region southeast of the Black Sea and southwest of the Caspian Sea.
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2023-06-19 19:15
Traces of prehistorical settlement revealed in northwest Iran
TEHRAN – An archaeological team has discovered traces of a prehistorical settlement, whose commencement is estimated to be somehow overlapped with the termination of the Iron Age.