Explore the archaeology of Ancient Iran, from settlements to monuments and artifacts.
Around 9,000 years ago, communities in Southwest Asia began to settle in permanent villages. People shifted from hunting and gathering ...
Archaeologists working in southern Iraq have identified the site of Alexandria on the Tigris, a large port city founded in ...
by Garritt C. Van Dyk -- We all scream for ice-cream, especially as temperatures soar in the summer. Ancient civilizations ...
While archaeologists have long known that people living in parts of Iran were experimenting with metal production around 5,000 years ...
A recent study published in L'Anthropologie explains the symbolic meaning of the ibex in ancient Near Eastern and Iranian cultures ...
A groundbreaking study of the Bedale Hoard, a remarkable Viking Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire in 2012, has ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the richest tomb to date at the Tepe Chalow site in eastern Iran, yielding new understanding of ...
Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that ancient human communities in western Iran, over 11,000 years ago, were engaging in grand ...
In a historic event for archaeology and Iranian heritage, the Prehistoric Sites of the Khorramabad Valley were officially inscribed on ...
Archaeologists excavating a prehistoric cemetery in Chega Sofla, western Iran, uncovered the skull of a young woman who died over ...
