Explore the archaeology of Ancient Iran, from settlements to monuments and artifacts.
Ancient Persian metalworkers worked with brass far earlier and in far more varied ways than researchers once thought. A new ...
A new study by historian Rachel Mairs brings together written evidence from ancient Central Asia to examine how language and ...
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 ...
A team of archaeologists excavating in the north of Iraq has uncovered evidence showing how different religious communities existed and ...
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 ...
