Masonry materials for the colossal monumental structures of Persepolis, the awe-inspiring architectural complexfrom the Achaemenid period, would be sourced from the surrounding mountains that occasionally lie up to 40km ...

The Makran is the location of ancient civilizations and one of the most important tsunamigenic zones in the world. Historical and instrumental records indicate the occurrence of large earthquakes on the main Makran fault ...

Until now, the well-known Kurgans in northwestern Iran were associated with burial mounds containing burial pits; however, the discoveries of 2018 revealed mounds lacking human burial pits indicating still unknown rituals ...

Following its inauguration, the National Museum of Iran used to be entrusted with the storing of all objectsobtained from archaeological investigations over several decades. Yet access to stored objects began gettingincreasingly ...

The Chalcolithic sequence of the Central Zagros, which is designed primarily using the potsherds recovered and other associated material culture has long been used by researchers as a framework for the mentioned region. ...

The Urmia-Dokhtar volcanic belt is the most important copper belt in Iran, where the archaeological materialsdiscussed in this article also derive from. The discovery of metallurgy findings in several areas of eastern ...

The southern Lake Urmia Basin witnessed significant political, military, cultural, and artistic transformations in thefirst millennium BC. The region was an integral part of Manna right from the formation of the kingdom. ...

Almost 12 kilometers to the east of Mahneshan city in Zanjan province, Northwest Iran, there is a collection ofhoodoos with an average height of 250 meters nearby Bihistan village that can be seen from great distances. ...

Laran district, located at the southern basin of the Zayandeh Roud River, has been an eligible location for humansettlements throughout historic/prehistoric periods due to its geographical conditions and significant ...

As it is well known, the tradition of studies on the post-Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods in general, and on the Iranian Plateau in particular, has always maintained that in that period the urbanization ...