An underground city and aqueduct was recently found in the ancient town of Abarkuh in Yazd Province, Iran. The Deputy of Cultural Heritage at the Yazd Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts ...

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Archaeologists discovered an ancient underground city beneath Abarkuh, Iran, where residents in Iran escaped above-ground heat. In the subterranean settlement, they found an aqueduct to transport ...

Conservationists at Persepolis, Iran's most iconic ancient site, are waging a delicate battle against an unlikely adversary: ...

Oriental Institute Photographic Archives This collection includes all the spectacular aerial photographs of ancient sites in Iran taken by Ernst Herzfeld between 1935 and 1937. The next four maps were ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - One of Tehran’s most recognizable landmarks, Azadi Tower, was illuminated in the colors of various national flags, including that of Armenia, as part of the pre-Nowruz festivities, ...

Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

Persepolis, Old Persian Parsa, or modern Takht-e Jamshid is an ancient capital of the kings of the Achaemenian dynasty of Iran (Persia), located about 50 km northeast of Shiraz in the Fars region of ...

Iran’s iconic Milad Tower lit up in the colors of Turkish and Syrian flags on Monday evening as a mark of solidarity with the two neighboring countries over recent devastating earthquakes.