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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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• 3rd Season of Excavation Gets Underway

  http://www.payvand.com/news/03/sep/1178.html
  From Payvand, third season of archaeological excavation gets underway in Takab, West Azarbaijan.

• Bullae from the Pahlavi Archive at the University of California, Berkeley

  http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/Eran/Articles/azarpay.html
  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.

• Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)

  http://www.cais-soas.com/
  Forum for the exchange of information about the art, archaeology, culture and civilization of Iranian peoples. News, images, events.

• Conference on Iran Shows Scientific Interest in Iranian World

  http://www.payvand.com/news/03/nov/1140.html
  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.

• Cosmological and Ideological Aspects of the Arjan Bowl

  http://www.achemenet.com/ressources/souspresse/annonces/Alvarez-Mon.pdf
  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.

• Dahaneh-Gholaman is the gate to Iran's history of Sassanid and Islamic eras

  http://www.payvand.com/news/03/mar/1109.html
  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.

• Girl with Silver Earrings Found in the Burnt City

  http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1071.html
  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.

• History of Ancient Iran

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

• Human Settlement in Iran's Central Plateau Dates back to 10,000 Years Ago

  http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1070.html
  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 Iran since 9 or 10 thousand years ago.

• Iran's Sleeping Parthian City to Awaken

  http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jul/1111.html
  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

• Iranian Archeologists to Identify Jiroft Ancient Quarries

  http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jul/1134.html
  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.

• Jiroft a Key Business Hub 5,000 Years Ago

  http://www.payvand.com/news/04/sep/1133.html
  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 people living in other parts of the country.

• Lafourak Male Skeleton Wears Gold and Silver Earrings

  http://www.payvand.com/news/05/may/1250.html
  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.

• Museum Stumbles on Lost Treasures

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

• Restoration of Neishabour historical site

  http://www.payvand.com/news/03/apr/1004.html
  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.

• Rhagae

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

• University of Chicago Returns Ancient Persian Tablets Loaned by Iran

  http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040428.tablets.shtml
  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.

• Western Team Allowed in Iran for Expedition

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

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