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» 3rd Season of Excavation Gets Underway
   From Payvand, third season of archaeological excavation gets underway in Takab, West Azarbaijan.
   http://www.payvand.com/news/03/sep/1178.html

» 400,000-year-old Stone Tools Discovered in Mazandaran
   From Mehrnews, recent discoveries by a team of archaeologists indicate that the coast of the Caspian Sea in Mazandaran Province was home to the earliest hominid habitation in that region.
   http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=192883

» 5000-year-old Clay Collection Discovered in Halil Rud Basin
   From Cultural Heritage News Agency, during the construction project for an irrigation structure in Rudbar of Kerman province, experts discovered some 40 objects dating to the third millennium BCE.
   http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=5498

» Bullae from the Pahlavi Archive at the University of California, Berkeley
   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.
   http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/Eran/Articles/azarpay.html

» Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
   Forum for the exchange of information about the art, archaeology, culture and civilization of Iranian peoples. News, images, events.
   http://www.cais-soas.com

» Conference on Iran Shows Scientific Interest in Iranian World
   From Payvand, an international congress on "The Iron Age in the Iranian World" was held with "big success" in the historical Belgian city of Ghent this week, IRNA reported from Brussels.
   http://www.payvand.com/news/03/nov/1140.html

» Cosmological and Ideological Aspects of the Arjan Bowl
   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.
   http://www.achemenet.com/ressources/souspresse/annonces/Alvarez-Mon.pdf

» Dahaneh-Gholaman is the gate to Iran's history of Sassanid and Islamic eras
   Located in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, the city of Dahaneh-Gholaman two kms from Ghal'e-Nau village in the suburb of Zabol is one of the provincial touristic attractions.
   http://www.payvand.com/news/03/mar/1109.html

» Excavation of 3400-year-old ruins of Kabnak set to begin
   From Mehr News, a team of German students from the University of Tubingen and Iranian archaeologists will begin excavating a huge wall which was discovered in the 3400-year-old ruins of Kabnak in Khuzestan Province.
   http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=150246

» Excavations at Chogha Mish
   Provided a long uninterrupted sequence of prehistoric Susiana, but also yielded evidence of cultures much earlier than what had been previously known, pushing back the date of human occupation on the plain for at least one millennium.
   http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IS/ALIZADEH/NN_SPR97/NN_Spr97.html

» Girl with Silver Earrings Found in the Burnt City
   From Iran News, archaeologists working on the historical site of the Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchistan have unearthed for the first time ever the body of a woman with silver earrings remained at sides of her head.
   http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1071.html

» History of Ancient Iran
   Online versions of texts about ancient Iran.
   http://iran-tarikh.tripod.com/

» Human Settlement in Iran's Central Plateau Dates back to 10,000 Years Ago
   From Iran News, farmers activities in Togh Tepe of Mazandaran province, resulted in the accidental discovery of the oldest pottery ever found in the area. Studies carried out on the artifacts have shown that humans have lived in the central plateau of Ira
   http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1070.html

» In Search of Buddhism along Iran’s Silk Road
   From Cultural News Network, a team of Iranian and Japanese experts are planning to carry out surveys along parts of the Silk Road inside Iran’s borders to find evidence of the ancient religion of Buddhism.
   http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=5483

» Iran's Sleeping Parthian City to Awaken
   Iranian archeologists are seeking for public funding to explore the ruins of a vast urban citadel, left from the Parthian dynasty (247 B.C.E.-226 C.E.), in Khorasan Province
   http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jul/1111.html

» Iranian Archeologists to Identify Jiroft Ancient Quarries
   From Payvand, archeologists intend to establish the way Iranians mined these quarries over 5,000 years ago and carried the stones to their city, today located in the southern province of Kerman.
   http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jul/1134.html

» Iranian Prehistoric Project
   Report of an ethnoarchaeological survey in Fars.
   http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/FAR/Fars.html

» Jiroft a Key Business Hub 5,000 Years Ago
   From Payvand, new archeological and art studies on insignias unearthed in the Iranian ancient site of Jiroft clearly shows that the southern area used to be the most important business nucleus of Persia and its residents had bustling trade ties with peopl
   http://www.payvand.com/news/04/sep/1133.html

» Lafourak Male Skeleton Wears Gold and Silver Earrings
   From Iran News, a male skeleton wearing a gold earring on his right ear and a silver one on his left. From a historical graveyard dating to 2800 years ago located in the northern province of Mazandaran.
   http://www.payvand.com/news/05/may/1250.html

» Museum Stumbles on Lost Treasures
   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.
   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/1400895/Museum-stumbles-on-lost-treasures.html

» Parthia: The Forgotten Empire
   Uses Parthian drachmas to illustrate and illuminate the history of the Parthian Empire.
   http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/parthia/frames/Parhom.htm

» Restoration of Neishabour historical site
   Deputy Head of Khorassan province Cultural Heritage Department for research Rajab-Ali Labbaf-Khaniki declared here on Wednesday a recently-approved project on restoration of the historical site in the ancient city of Neishabour.
   http://www.payvand.com/news/03/apr/1004.html

» Rhagae
   A short description of the religious center in ancient Media.
   http://www.livius.org/ra-rn/rhagae/rhagae.html

» The Chogha Mish Project
   Excavations at Chogha Mish between 1961 and 1978.
   http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/CHO/Chogha_Mish.html

» The Persian Expedition
   Report of the Persian Expedition to conduct excavations by James Henry Breasted at the remains of Persepolis, an Achaemenid royal administrative center in the province of Fars.
   http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/PER/Persian_Ex.html

» The Tall-e Bakun Project
   Report on the excavations at Tall-e Bakun B by Alexander Langsdorff and Donald McCown in 1932, and later in 1937 by Eric Schmidt and McCown on behalf of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
   http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/BAK/Bakun.html

» University of Chicago Returns Ancient Persian Tablets Loaned by 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 Organi
   http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040428.tablets.shtml

» Western Team Allowed in Iran for Expedition
   From Chicago Chronicle, for the first time since 1979, a University archaeological expedition has begun digging in southwest Iran, an area known as Khuzestan.
   http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031023/iran.shtml