Resource Manager Posted February 3, 2013 Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 Thread:Iranian Archaeological News News items relating to recent discoveries in Bible Lands and including up-dates of past discoveries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 ICHHTO to Deliver One Last Blow to the Already Suffered Sasanian City of GundeshapurSaturday, 02 February 2013 06:30LONDON, (CAIS) -- "Permission for the construction of a housing complex over the Sasanian city of Jondi Shapur (Gundeshapur) has been issued by the city of Dezful Cultural heritage authority.The provincial brunch of Iran Cultural Heritage and Handcraft Organisation (ICHHTO), in a damaging move has issued a license for the construction of houses, coving 40,000 square meters over the protected national heritage site of the Sasanian city of Jondi Shapur.For the last three decades the ancient city has severely been damaged by constant illegal excavations, agriculture and unnecessary civil projects caused mainly by the authorities’ negligence as well as malice acts, towards the pre-Islamic Iranian heritage site by the ruling regime. The construction of new houses over the ancient city would ensure its total destruction."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 Iranian Archaeologists to Return to the Prehistoric Bām-e Qeshm GeoparkMonday, 04 February 2013 03:07"LONDON, (CAIS) -- The provincial branch of Iran’s Cultural and Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organisation (ICHHTO), at the Island of Qeshm in the Persian Gulf, has announced archaeologists from Iran’s Archaeological Research Centre (IARC) will recommence their research on the prehistoric sites, before the end of current Iranian year (March 20th).During the previous seasons, Iranian archaeologists have identified human settlements belonging to the Paleolithic and the Mesolithic ages. The settlements are scattered around the Bām-e Qeshm Geopark, the oldest dates to 150,000 years ago and it is considered to be the earliest human settlement in the Persian Gulf.During the last seasons, a number of human and animal bones, stone tools and other material cultures were discovered, which assisted in scientifically dating the sites.IARC also announced, at the same time an underwater archaeological survey will be conducted near the island.Archaeological research in 2006 led to the discovery of 32 historical sites belonging to the Parthian (248 BCE– 224 CE), Sasanian (224–651 CE), and post-Sasanian periods. Also, the evidence suggests the trade was strong during the Safavid period (1501-1736 CE)."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Qom’s Parthian fire temple left at her own devices to be destroyed Friday, 08 February 2013 11:43"LONDON, (CAIS) -- A recent report from Qom, indicates Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organisation (ICHHTO) has purposely left a 2,000-year-old Kermejgān (recently Karamjegān) fire temple at her own devices at the mercy of zealous religious leaders and harsh weather, to be destroyed.Kermejgān fire temple, which in fact is a chār tāqi (small fire-temple with astrological and calendrical functionalities) is located in the northwest of a village of the same name, in the Kahak District of the central Iranian province of Qom. The chār tāqi is 7.10 x7.10 meters, and there is a 3.5-meter gap between each 1.8 x 1.8 meters tick pillars. Although smaller, the similarity between Kermejgān and Niāsar chār tāqi in Kashn, led to believe Kermejgān is a Parthian dynastic (248 BCE-224 CE) construction, dating to the early first century CE."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2013 Archaeologists Discover Ruins of Elymais Temple in Southwestern IranOn Line: 10 November 2013 15:33In Print: Monday 11 November 2013TEHRAN -- "A team of Iranian and Italian archaeologists has unearthed ruins of an ancient temple in an Elymais site in the Kaleh Chendar region in southwestern Iran, the Iranian director of the team announced on Saturday.Most parts of the structure have been built with large stones without mortar in form of a broad platform like those built at Persepolis, Jafar Mehrkian told the Persian service of CHN.The structure also includes platforms made of brick, which were usually built in the ancient temples, he added.Vito Messina of the University of Turin and a number of his colleagues accompanied the team during the excavation intended to gather information about the Elymais period, about which little is known in Iranian history, he stated." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2013 Archaeologists Discover Traces of BMAC in Northeastern IranOn Line: 17 November 2013 17:14In Print: Monday 18 November 2013"TEHRAN - Traces of an international culture that is similar to the BMAC – the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex – have been discovered during an archaeological excavation in the prehistoric site of Chalo near the town of Sankhast in North Khorasan Province, Iran.The excavation has been carried out by a team of Iranian and Italian archaeologists, the Iranian director of the team, Ali-Akbar Vahdati, told the Persian service of CHN on Saturday.This is the second time the team has worked at the site. The first season of excavation was carried out in 2011. The team also includes experts from Italy’s Institute for Aegean and Near Eastern Studies – ICEVO.The BMAC, also known as the Oxus civilization, is the modern archaeological designation for a Bronze Age civilization of Central Asia. The civilization, which dates to ca. 2300–1700 BC, was located in present day northern Afghanistan, eastern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan, centered on the upper Amu Darya (Oxus River)."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted February 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2014 Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:34Achaemenid Inscription Found in Iran's PerspolisTEHRAN (FNA)- "Archaeologists said they have discovered pieces of a stone inscription belonging to an ancient Achaemenid emperor in Persepolis in Iran’s Southern province of Fars.The inscription was unearthed at the Palace of Xerxes King (Khashayar Shah) reigned around 520 BCE.A team of experts is trying to attach the pieces together to decipher the text of inscription, said the team leader Professor Gian Pietro Basello of the University of Naples, Italy.Basello is a specialist in historical philology of Iranian languages of the "L’Orientale."He also claimed that he has found a few spelling mistakes in the inscriptions placed in the ruins of Persepolis.“The texts of the inscriptions were written by people with a high level of literacy, but the mistakes happened when the engravers cut the texts into the stones," said Basello’s colleague, Adriano V. Rossi, during a seminar held in the Southern Iranian city of Shiraz."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2014 Mystery Surrounding Lost Army of Persian King Cambyses II May Have Been SolvedJun 19, 2014 by Enrico de LazaroProf Olaf Kaper, an archaeologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, believes he may have solved one of the greatest mysteries in ancient history – what happened to the 50,000-man army of Persian King Cambyses II in the Egyptian desert around 524 BC."According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses II, the oldest son of Cyrus the Great, sent his army to destroy the Oracle of Amun at Siwa Oasis. 50,000 warriors entered the Egypt’s western desert near Luxor. Somewhere in the middle of the desert the army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and destroyed.Although many scientists regard the story as a myth, amateur as well as professional archaeologists have searched for the remains of the Persian soldiers for many decades.Prof Kaper never believed this story. “Some expect to find an entire army, fully equipped. However, experience has long shown that you cannot die from a sandstorm,” he said."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Archaeologists Uncover Human Tragedy at Ancient Elamite Site of Haft Tappeh Posted on November 6, 2015 "The ancient Elamite site of Haft Tappeh is located in southwestern Iran. Archaeologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have been progressively examining the city located at the site since 2002, and have unearthed evidence of a human tragedy that occurred here 3,400 years ago."Continued also @: Tasnim News AgencyArchaeologists Discover Elamite Era Site in Southwestern Iran News ID: 909599 Service: Society/Culture November, 07, 2015 - 15:48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 How a German Archaeologist Rediscovered in Iran the Tomb of Cyrus Lost for centuries, the royal capital of the Achaemenid Empire was finally confirmed by Ernst Herzfeld By Jackson Landerssmithsonian.com February 16, 2016 "Alexander the Great rode into the city of Pasargadae with his most elite cavalry in their bronze, muscle-sculpted body armor, carrying long spears. Some of his infantry and archers followed. The small city, in what is today Iran, was lush and green. Alexander had recently conquered India. Greece, Macedonia, Asia Minor and parts of Egypt were all part of his new empire. The people of Pasargadae likely expected the worst—when the world's most dangerous cavalry shows up on your street, you are probably going to have a bad day. But he hadn't come to fight (the city was already his)."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2016 3,000 Year Old Glazed Bricks Discovered In Iran’s Sardasht 8/03/2016 06:00:00 PM "Reza Heidari, the head of the fifth season of archaeological excavations in Rabat hill, said that his team has unearthed ancient pottery, architectural remnants and glazed bricks in the site." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Archaeologists Conduct Excavations In Ancient Iranian Salt Mines 10/24/2016 08:00:00 PM "Researchers from Iran and Germany began a fresh round of excavations in Chehrabad Salt Mine in the northwestern province of Zanjan to reach layers dating back to the Achaemenid Empire." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 Iranian Archaeologist Uncovers What May be World’s Oldest Rock Etchings Technology made available with sanctions relief could shed new light on engravings previously seen by just handful of people BY ERIC RANDOLPH December 12, 2016, 1:21 am KHOMEIN, Iran (AFP) — "An Iranian archaeologist has spent years in an almost single-handed quest across the country’s hills and desert plains to uncover ancient rock art that could be among the oldest in the world."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Historic Water Supply Network Discovered Under Iranian City Of Isfahan 1/13/2017 08:00:00 PM “A historic water canal has been recently discovered in Isfahan,” announced Alamdar Alian, the head of Archaeology Department of Isfahan Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Remains Of 'Extremely Tall Man' Discovered Alongside Ancient Treasure Trove In Iran 2/15/2017 10:30:00 PM "Archaeologists in western Iran have discovered a treasure trove of ancient artefacts, including the remains of an extremely tall man who lived more than 1,500 years ago."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Palaces of Ancient Persia Were Built with 'Fire Temple' Wood By Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor | February 27, 2017 04:23pm ET "Cypress wood might have been used in ancient palaces in Persia partly because of its sacred value in a religion known for its "fire temples," a new study finds. Scientists examined ruins from the Sasanian Empire, which lasted from A.D. 224 to 651 and constituted the last imperial dynasty in Persia — what is now Iran. It was the most powerful political and economic rival of the Roman Empire for nearly half a millennium, said study lead author Morteza Djamali, a paleoecologist at the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology in Aix-en-Provence, France."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Archaeologists Dispatched to Newly-Unearthed Site in Southeast Iran Society April 9, 2017 “A team of archaeologists has been dispatched to Fahraj in order to determine whether the site was used to be a necropolis or an inhabitance,” CHTN quoted Mohammad Vafaei, the director of the CHTHO provincial department, as saying on Saturday. The CHTHO officials have yet to confirm the antiquity of the site until the surveys conclude whether the area or the excavated objects are of historical value." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 Archaeological Probe Finds Prehistoric Gravestones in Southeast Iran Society May 24, 2017 "Sets of twin and triple tombstones exist amongst the newly excavated gravestones that are believed to date back to 3rd millennium BC, according to initial surveys conducted by experts affiliated with the Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, IRNA reported on May 21."Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 Archeologists Discover Bronze Era Pottery in Western Iran Society 04.10.2017 | 16:15 Tehran, 4 October (BelTA - IRNA) - "The wheel-made Middle Bronze pottery with brown and reddish patterns are among objects discovered in Tappeh Zaliva, city of Noorabad, in Lorestan Province. The Public Relations Office of the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT) quoted Nassimeh Yussefvand, head of the probing team as saying on Tuesday that the major pottery discovered are polished and burnished with a lot of elegance." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2017 7000-Year-Old Residence Found in Western Iran December 25, 2017 "The second season of excavations at the site has so far yielded several stages of construction, considerable numbers of pottery pieces, as well as remains of residential units associated with the everyday life that are estimated to date from the 5th millennium BC," IRNA quoted Hannan Bahranipour, who leads the excavations team, as saying on Sunday." Continued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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