TEHRAN -- The director of the archaeological team working at the Jiroft ancient site in the Halil-Rud River cultural area told archaeologists on Wednesday to use the term Proto-Iranian instead of ...

When it was made: 3100 to 2900 B.C. This 5,000-year-old silver figurine depicts a bull kneeling in a human-like pose and holding a spouted vessel. It was made in southern Mesopotamia by someone from ...

“Two clay vessels belonging to the Old Elam (Banash) were discovered while people were digging to install curbs for the sidewalk in the village of Golmakan, Marvdasht county, “ Mehr quoted the ...

The ancient language of Linear Elamite may have finally been deciphered, according to a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische ...

The decision was made in line with a memorandum of understanding signed by the museums’ officials in November 2004. “Both museums have begun counting their inscriptions and when the number of the ...

Yusef Majidzadeh argues that the inscriptions recently discovered at Konar-Sandal, a subsection of the Jiroft ancient site, and at some other ancient sites in Iran, are older than the oldest ...