Tehran Times - A batch of Iranian ancient relics, which had been smuggled to Austria, was recovered and surrendered to a representative of the Islamic Republic in Vienna on Thursday. A number of antiquities belonging to Iran that were illegally smuggled into Austria were handed over to our countrys representative in Austria flowing a series of legal ...

Press TV - This is a welcome ceremony for an ancient Iranian soldier! This bas-relief of an Achaemenid guard is 2,500 years old. It was returned to Iran after over eight decades of distance. The story began in 1932 when an American archaeologist excavated the artifact at Persepolis in the Iranian city of Shiraz, the ancient ceremonial capital of ...

IFP - The Museum of Coin or the Coin Gallery of Sepah Bank, located in downtown Tehran, is one of the largest and most valuable coin collections whose items date back to 2,700 years ago. The museum was founded in 1963 in order to preserve the countrys cultural heritage. In this museum, there are 20,000 coins belonging to different periods of ...

Financial Tribune- Some untold secrets of Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC), will be revealed in a documentary, says its maker Pejman Mazaheripour. The documentary is titled Takht-e-Jamshid (Persian name widely used for Persepolis). Mazaheripour, 44, who has directed archaeological documentaries in the past,...

A group of Iranian and Italian archaeologists has started the new season of excavating project at the ancient site of Persepolis. The study is to be conducted by the Iranian specialists and Italian experts from the University of Bologna. The new project is scheduled to center on the structure and architecture of the ancient ruins which belonged ...