Iran Archive

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest human settlement in Iran discovered so far is announced by the team co-led by Iranian archaeologist Hamed Vahdati and French paleoanthropologist Gilles

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - One of the world’s longest human conflicts in history was between the Romans and Persians. The Hundred Years’ War and even Rome’s long

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - The Proto-Elamite script is the world's oldest system of writing that has yet to be deciphered. This Early Bronze Age writing was briefly

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of archaeologists and cultural heritage experts have started to dig trenches across Konar Sandal under the supervision of the Research Institute of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A total of 49 works of ancient art that had been looted and smuggled out of Iran some four decades ago have recently

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Named after Alexander the Great this legendary place remains as mysterious as fascinating. Locals call it Zendan-e Eskandar and the original purpose of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Explorations have been continued in the ancient Liar San Bon, an archaeological site in Amlash, located in Iran's Gilan province at the southwestern

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  We wrote earlier on AncientPages.com about a jar burial cemetery that was unearthed at an ancient historic site in Iran’s central city of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During archaeological excavations on Tappeh Ashraf (Ashraf Hill), archaeologists have discovered stone water well in Iran’s Isfahan province that dates back to the Sassanid

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient petroglyphs in Iran represent a large part of the rock art (pictographs, or painting on rock; and rock reliefs) of this ancient

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered traces of early humans and their basic handmade tools near the village of Bangelayan, southern Hormozgan province. “Traces of early

David Tee - AncientPages.com - The area deemed today as Iran has had a long history. The Medes first ruled the nation in the 9th century BC. However, the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 3,000-year-old silver goblet has been discovered  during excavation work carried out in the Ardabil province of northwestern Iran. The ancient artifact may have

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - These ancient structures, called yakhchals should not be confused with pyramids or ziggurats. The yakhchals (‘yakh’ means ‘ice’ and ‘chal’ means ‘pit’) are in

A.Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have initiated new surveys to examine sections of the ancient structure known as the Great Wall of Gorgan, located in northern Iran. Constructed between

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com  - Today, Pasargadae are ruins of an ancient city in southwestern Iran, in the village of Mashhad-e Murghab, in the Zagros mountains, at an altitude

Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the local dialect, the Chogha (also known as Tchogha) means abnormal hills, and “Zanbil” means the basket, and since this site was

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The underground city of Nushabad, known as Ouyi to locals is located 8 km north of Kashan in Esfahan province, central Iran. It's

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - For centuries, Mesopotamia was thought to be the world's oldest civilization. The people accepted this until a 5,000-year-old temple was accidentally discovered at

AncientPages.com - Were ancient people familiar with computers? Is it possible the world's oldest data storage system was invented more than 5000 yeas ago? Scientists are trying to decipher