Over 5000 years ago, in Uruk, now Warka in southern Iraq, a form of human cohabitation developed that is taken for granted all over the globe: urban life. Ever since systematic excavations commenced here in winter 1912/13, led first by the German Oriental Society and later by the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute, the city has stood at the centre of all research conducted into the genesis (...)
At least 18 ancient mosaics depicting scenes from Homer’s The Odyssey have been stolen in northern Syria, the culture minister was quoted as saying on Sunday.
«These mosaics were stolen during illegal excavations» on archaeological sites in the war-torn country’s northeast, Lubana Mushaweh said in an interview published on Sunday by the government daily Tishreen. «We have been informed that these mosaics are now on (...)
Source: CCTV.
The ruins of a Buddhist temple dating back 1,500 years ago have been discovered in China’s largest desert — the Taklimakan in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The findings offer valuable research material for historians studying the development of Buddhism in China.
The ruins of a Buddhist temple dating back 1,500 years ago have been discovered in China’s largest desert — the Taklimakan in Xinjiang (...)
Source: Middle East Online
Shapur II coins? Click to enlarge
Gold coins found in an archaeological site in the Iraqi province of Wasit, south of Baghdad, are displayed on January 7, 2013. Iraqi archaeologists have discovered 66 gold coins in the south of the country that are at least 1,400 years old, officials said. The coins will be sent for laboratory tests before being put on display at the National Museum (...)
Source: Pajhwok News Agency.
The foreign ministry on Monday handed hundreds of Kushan-era coins, brought from London, to the Afghanistan National Museum. As many as 215 coins were returned to the museum at a ceremony attended by Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul, Information and Culture Minister Syed Makhdoom Rahin and other officials.
Afghan Ambassador to Britain Mohammad Daudyar told the ceremony the coins had (...)
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نگاهی به برخی از محوطههای باستانی در معرض خطر نابودی بنای دوران ماد، باقیمانده بر بالای تپه گونسپان. تپۀ گونسپان پیش از آبگیری سد کلان. تپۀ گونسپان پس از آبگیری سد کلان.
تپۀ گونسپان ملایر — معروف به ”پاتپه “، این تپه اکنون در معرض خطر نابودی کامل در اثر آبگیری ”سد کلان ملایر“ است. به طوری که هم اکنون بخش عمدهای از تپه به زیر آب رفته و از ارتفاع حدود ۲٨ متری تپه تنها ۷ تا ٨ متر بیرون از آب به صورت جزیرهای باقی (...)
به گزارش خبرنگار مهر، نقش رستم مجموعۀ باستانی با ارزشی است که در فاصلۀ ۵,٦ کیلومتری از محوطۀ باستانی تخت جمشید واقع شده است و نام آن مانند نامهای تخت جمشید، نقش رجب و بسیاری نامهای مکانهای تاریخی دیگر، ارتباط مستقیم تاریخی با آثار موجود در آن ندارد.
در این مجموعۀ مهم تاریخی، آرامگاه چند تن از پادشاهان هخامنشی (از جمله داریوش بزرگ و خشایارشا)، نقش برجستههائی از وقایع مهم دوران ساسانیان (از جمله تاجگذاری اردشیر بابکان و پیروزی شاپور اول بر امپراتوران روم)، بنائی (...)
But Mary Settegast has revived the tradition of dating him in the seventh millennium, for she believes that the archaeological evidence from this period most closely fits with the narrative schemas of Zoroastrianism. The middle of the seventh millennium was a time of great change in which the preceding period, known as the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, with its skull cults and worship of male virility in the form of (...)
Gandhara is a region in the north-west of the South Asian Sub-continent, comprising of the Peshawar valley, including the present day districts of Peshawar, Mardan, Swat and Dir, as well as Malakand and Bajaur agencies on the west bank of the Indus in the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan and Taxila beyond the Indus on the east.
The Rigveda, an ancient sacred book of the Aryans includes a poem on (...)
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موقعیت قلعۀ ”آژدهاك، زهاك“ قلعه زهاك در آذربايجان شرقی
قلعۀ آژدهاك (زهاك)، در ۱۶ كیلومتری جنوب شرقی شهر سراسكند مركز شهرستان هشترود و در بلندیهای كوه سرمهلو واقع شده و دو رودخانۀ قرانقو و شویچای مانند خندق دورتادور آن را گرفته است. این قلعه حدود ۱۰ كیلومتر درازا و یك تا دو كیلومتر پهنا دارد و از عظیمترین محوطههای باستانی استان آذربایجان شرقی است. این مجموعه براساس بررسیهای (...)
Musée Cernuschi 7 av Velasquez 75008 PARIS.
M°: Monceau, Villiers.
پس ازخواندن این نوشتهها در پی آن شادی فراوان غمی بسیار بر دل آدمی مینشیند. زیرا در هیچیک از آنها به نادرستیها و نابسامانیهائی که از سوی برگزارکنندگان در این نمایشگاه به چشم میخورد اشارهای نشده است.
در این میان تنها و تنها انجمن پارسیگویان بود که به واکنشی فوری دست زد.
یادآور میشویم در روزهای نخست کسانی که به دیدار این نمایشگاه ارزنده شتافتند با شگفتی بسیار با نخشهای از ایرانزمین (...)
Taq-e Gara During the Sassanid dynasty era, all caravans entering Iran from the west were controlled in Taq-e Gara.
The Kermanshah road and Taq-e Gara, which was used as a watchtower for controlling the road and providing security to caravans entering Iran from the west, are considered among the masterpieces of ancient times.
Of course, the actual use of the edifice has not yet been determined.
Experts (...)
There are over 2700 texts, which number does not correspond exactly to the number of sherds, since many sherds have inscriptions on both surfaces, representing different documents, and there are a large number of palimpsests.
In 1974 the plan of publishing a comprehensive edition of the Parthian ostraca was adopted by the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. The editors hoped that the edition would be completed (...)
The old part of Bam was one of the world’s most spectacular and best-preserved deserted medieval cities. In architectural and archaeological terms, the ancient Iranian palace city was of major international importance. Surrounded by a magnificent 16th century city wall, and entered into through complex gateways, the old town has long been famous in Iran for its vast urban landscape of abandoned houses, and shops. (...)