MNA The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of Iran is making efforts to have Yalda Night (Shab-e Yalda) inscribed on UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2021. In Iran, the longest night of the year, startingfrom the last day of fall (Azar 30th, December 20/21st) till the dawn of the next day (Dey 1st), has ...

IRNA - A genuine book of 'Jami-al-Tawarikh' or 'Rashidi History' written by Rashid-ul-ddin Fazlollah Hamadani kept in Golestan Museum in Tehran was registered as world heritage in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Head of National Library and Archives Organization of Iran (NLAOI) Ashraf Boroujerdi announced the ...

Financial Tribune- Cultural heritage officials have yet to decide on what site to nominate for inscription on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Though last month it was reported that the Caspian Hyrcanian forests, which line the Caspian Sea shores in northern Iran, would vie for a place on the coveted World Heritage List, an official at Iran's Cultural ...

November 30, The Iran Project Farhad Nazari, head of Registration Office of Iran's Cultural Heritage announced that Nowruz MultinationalFilewas registered in the list of World Intangible Heritage in the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Speaking to a reporter on Wednesday, Farhad Nazari said with the participation ...

Shahr-e Sukhteh (The Burnt City), located in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan near the border with Afghanistan, has become Irans 17th entry on the UNESCOs World Heritage List. The Burnt City, which has only been partly excavated, was the largest urban settlement in eastern Persia during the Bronze Age. The city brought together ...

The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in its 40th session since July 10 in Turkey, inscribed eleven Iranian qanats on the World Heritage List.     By IFP  

SUSA (Tasnim) Archeological Museum of Susa is located in the ancient city of Susa in Khuzestan province, southwest of Iran. Susa was inscribed on Saturday to the UNESCO World Heritage List as Irans ??th site to be entered.       By ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Vice-President and Head of the country's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) felicitated the nation on the inscription of Susa ancient city and cultural landscape of Maymand to UNESCO World Heritage List. In a message on Sunday, Massoud Soltanifar referred to the inscription as a "great step ...

The historical city of Susa in Khuzestan Province and the ancient Meymand village in Kerman Province were inscribed on UNESCOs World Heritage List on Saturday. The decision was made during the World Heritage Committees 39th session in Bonn that will continue until July 8, Mehr News Agency reported. Iran now boasts 19 World Heritage Sites. On ...

Lut Desert along with 11 qanats are set to be registered on the UNESCO World Heritage list by the end of 2015, ILNA reported, quoting the deputy director of Irans Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Mohamad Hassan Talebian. We have been cooperating with official bodies, such as the Department of Environment and the energy ...

HAMEDAN, Mar. 10 (MNA) Director General of Hamedan Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism has said efforts must be made to remove obstacles on the way to get Ali Sadr Cave inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List. Reihan Soroush Moghadam maintained that certain conflicts such as human activities have caused issues for some of the Provinces ...

Tehran, March 7, IRNA - The international Norouz dossier will be registered on the World Heritage List in 2016, an Iranian official said. The international Norouz dossier, which is to be presented to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by 12 nations during March 2015, will be registered on the World Heritage ...

ISFAHAN, Dec. 30 (MNA) Assarkhaneh Shahi belonging to Safavid dynasty is a historical oil extracting house in the UNESCO world-heritage-listed Isfahan. Assarkhanehs (oil extraction houses) played a key role in Iranian history in providing the required oil for the people during different periods of time. One of the most important cultural, historical ...

DEHDASHT, Dec. 20 (MNA) The ancient structure of Belad Shapour in southwest of Iran is on the verge of being on the UNESCOs World Heritage List. The ancient structure of Belad Shapour is located in Dehdasht, southwest of Iran. It was once one of the greatest historical sites in Iran; however, it has witnessed lots of damages at the end of the Safavid ...

[caption id="attachment_128092" align="alignright" width="234"] The ancient Iranian city of Shush in southern Khuzestan Province[/caption] The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is planning to inscribe the ancient Iranian city of Shush on the 2015 World Heritage List. A delegation of UNESCO experts visited ...

Tehran, Nov 6, IRNA - Two experts from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization arrived in Shush in the Iranian southwestern Khuzestan province on Wednesday as a prelude to the registration of the ancient city on UNESCOs 2015 Heritage List. Esther Kuisch Laroche, director and representative of UNESCOs cluster office in ...

Tehran, Oct 27, IRNA UNESCO is well-prepared to inscribe the ancient city of Susa the World Heritage List. UNESCO experts are scheduled to visit Susa this week. Ziggurats of Choghazanbil and the Shushtar water mills in Khuzestan Province, Iran, are among the monuments put in the UNESCO list. The 400 hectare ancient site of Susa houses ancient ...

[caption id="attachment_108013" align="alignright" width="159"] Burnt City, Sistan-Baluchestan Province, Iran[/caption] Tehran, Oct 23, IRNA - A plaque pertaining to the registration of the ancient Iranian site Burnt City (Shahr-e Sukhteh) on UNESCOs World Heritage List will be symbolically unveiled in a ceremony today in Zabol, Sistan-Baluchestan ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- A group of Iranian researchers, archeologists, artists, correspondents and social and cultural heritage activists raised concerns about specifications of area of Iranian ancient city of Shush sent to the UNESCO for inscription on the World Heritage list of the organization. The activists signed a statement calling for more attention ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 10 The UNESCO Office in Dezful is compiling documentation on this ancient city and will soon submit it to UNESCO to have it added to the worlds heritage list. Director of the UNESCO Office in Dezful Abdol-Hossein Pour Rokni said, we are currently compiling the file for Dezful to have it registered in UNESCO world heritage list. We ...