Achaemenid soldier bas-relief has been handed back to Iran The Achaemenid soldier bas-relief that was slated for auction in New York has been repatriated by Hassan Rouhani. The base price of this bas-relief was $1.2 million which had returned to Iran by President following his recent visit to the UN headquarters in the US. The relic […]
READ MORESassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region The Sassanid Archaeological Landscape would cover archaeological remains of the last pre-Islamic Iranian dynasty – the “Sassanids” (AD 224-651) whose empire stretched to the Levant, Central Asia, E Arabia and Turkey/the Caucasus. Successors to the Parthians, they too were involved militarily across their entire period against the Romans in […]
READ MOREHyrcanian forests UNESCO inscribes Iran’s Hyrcanian Forests as a World Heritage. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee add these forests to its World Heritage List, this ancient forests with more than 50 million years old have stunning biodiversity. Iran Hyrcanian forests a UNESCO heritage The Hyrcanian forests in northern Iran run more than 800km the coast of […]
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