The investigation of past cultures of the modern nationstate of Iran through the study and scientific analysis of material remains (i.e., osteological, artifactual, architectural, etc.).
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Article by Guitty Azarpay. The Pahlavi Archive at Berkeley comprises 260 silk and leather manuscripts, 82 of which still have one or more clay bulla attached.
Forum for the exchange of information about the art, archaeology, culture and civilization of Iranian peoples. News, images, events.
Iranica Antique 4. In 1982 in the vicinity of Arjan, 10 km north of Behbahan, a bronze bowl measuring 43.5 cm in diameter was found inside a rectangular tomb built of stone slabs.
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Online versions of texts about ancient Iran.
From University of Chicago News Office, Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian Empire, to the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, the national antiquities department, in the first return of loaned archaeological items there since the 1979 revolution.
From Chicago Chronicle, for the first time since 1979, a University archaeological expedition has begun digging in southwest Iran, an area known as Khuzestan.
(October 23, 2003)
From News Telegraph, two 4,500-year-old gold head-dresses from ancient Sumer have been found in a store room at the British Museum where they had lain wrongly labelled for 73 years.
(July 10, 2002)
Forum for the exchange of information about the art, archaeology, culture and civilization of Iranian peoples. News, images, events.
Online versions of texts about ancient Iran.
Article by Guitty Azarpay. The Pahlavi Archive at Berkeley comprises 260 silk and leather manuscripts, 82 of which still have one or more clay bulla attached.
From University of Chicago News Office, Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian Empire, to the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, the national antiquities department, in the first return of loaned archaeological items there since the 1979 revolution.
Iranica Antique 4. In 1982 in the vicinity of Arjan, 10 km north of Behbahan, a bronze bowl measuring 43.5 cm in diameter was found inside a rectangular tomb built of stone slabs.
[PDF]
From Chicago Chronicle, for the first time since 1979, a University archaeological expedition has begun digging in southwest Iran, an area known as Khuzestan.
(October 23, 2003)
From News Telegraph, two 4,500-year-old gold head-dresses from ancient Sumer have been found in a store room at the British Museum where they had lain wrongly labelled for 73 years.
(July 10, 2002)
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