5+ day, 56+ min ago   (243+ words) TEHRAN – Iran has registered more than 43,000 relics and properties, including more than 14,000 historical buildings, the minister of cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts said on Tuesday. Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri said Iran's tangible heritage, including historic buildings, structures and archaeological sites, together…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (258+ words) TEHRAN - For centuries, the Indian Ocean served not as a barrier separating Iran from East Africa, but as a maritime corridor linking the two regions. Seasonal monsoon winds carried sailors, merchants, religious scholars and migrants between the Persian Gulf, the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (284+ words) TEHRAN – A series of new conservation and infrastructure projects are underway at the UNESCO-registered Persepolis in southern Iran, including fencing of some 70 hectares of surrounding land, the director of World Heritage site has said. Mohammad-Javad Jafari said about 35 hectares of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (211+ words) TEHRAN - A major new scholarly work on the monetary systems of the Achaemenid Empire was published earlier in July, offering the first comprehensive account of the diverse coinages that circulated across one of the ancient world's most expansive and administratively…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (279+ words) TEHRAN – The Persian translation of the book “Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present” by Christopher I. Beckwith has been released in the bookstores across Iran. Translated by Sahrbanoo Saremi,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (413+ words) TEHRAN- Public libraries across Iran are currently hosting a special reading club titled “Toward Minab,” coinciding with the anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and commemorating the children killed in the attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary…...