The Archaeology of Iran encompasses the following subjects:

Archaeological discoveries in Iran

Archaeological sites in Iran Some of the prehistoric archaeological sites of Iran are listed below: *Paleolithic **Hotu and Kamarband Caves **Darband Cave ** Qal'eh Bozi ** Do-Ashkaft Cave **Warwasi **Bisitun Cave **Kashafrud *Neolithic ** Tappeh Sialk ** Ganj Dareh ** Al ...

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Rock art in Iran Rock art in Iran includes archaeological petroglyphs, or carving in rock; rock art#pictograph, pictographs, or painting on rock; and rock reliefs. Large numbers of prehistoric rock art, more than 50,000, have been discovered in Iran. Dating back ...

* Great Wall of Gorgan *

Hasanlu Lovers The Hasanlu Lovers are a pair of human remains found at the Teppe Hasanlu archaeological site, located in the Naqadeh in the West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Around 800 BCE, the city of Hasanlu, located in north-western Iran, was destroyed b ...

* Islamic ceramics from the Susa site *

Achaemenid inscription in the Kharg Island The Achaemenid inscription in the Kharg Island is an important inscription from the Achaemenid Empire that was discovered in 2007 while constructing a road. It is located on Kharg Island, Iran. This inscription is written in Old Persian language w ...

Achaemenid Persian Lion Rhyton The Achaemenid Persian Lion Rhyton (in Persian:"تکوک شیر غران") is an ancient artifact related to Achaemenians. A rhyton is a kind of vessel which normally terminates in the shape of an animal's head or horns. These vessels were common ...

Acropole Tomb The Acropole Tomb was excavated on 6 February 1901 by Jacques de Morgan on the so called acropolis in Susa. The Achaemenide burial was found intact and contained a high number of personal adornments, many of then made in gold. The burial dates ...

* Apadana hoard *

Bardak Siah Palace Bardak Siah Palace is the name of the site of an ancient Achaemenid Persian palace situated in the ancient city of Temukan near the township of Borazjan in the northern part of Bushehr Province of Iran. The site was unearthed in 1977 by Iranian ...

* Bushel with ibex motifs *

Code of Hammurabi The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organised, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hamm ...

Egyptian statue of Darius I The Egyptian statue of Darius I is a statue of Achaemenid ruler Darius I with Egyptian iconography and inscriptions. This is the best known example of in-the-round statuary that has remained from the Achaemenid period. Darius I is depicted wearin ...

* Golden bowl of Hasanlu * Luristan bronze * Musicians plate * Narundi * Nazimaruttaš kudurru stone * Parchments of Avroman *

Parthian bas-relief at Mydan Mishan The Parthian bas-relief at Mydan Mishan is located kilometers south-west of Hamadan, and 2 kilometers west of the well-known Ganjnameh inscriptions of the Achaemenid Persian period. The relief, dating to the Parthian period, is reachable by cros ...

* Persepolis Administrative Archives *

Shami statue The Shami statue is one of the main surviving works of Parthian art. It is currently in the National Museum of Iran (Inv. no. 2401) and was found at Shami (modern Khūzestān Province), where there was an ancient sanctuary. The bronze statue is 1 ...

Statue of Hercules in Behistun The Statue of Hercules in Behistun (or Statue of Heracles/Herakles in Bisotun, Persian: تندیس هرکول) is located on Mount Behistun, Iran. It was discovered in 1958, and is the only extant rock sculpture from the period of Seleucid control ...

* Victory Stele of Naram-Sin * Ziwiye hoard

Archaeologists

* Roland de Mecquenem (archaeologist) * Frank Hole *

Geneviève Dollfus Genevieve (french: link=no, Sainte Geneviève; la, Sancta Genovefa, Genoveva; 419/422 AD – 502/512 AD) is the patroness saint of Paris in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Her feast is on 3 January. Genevieve was born in Nanterre and ...

* Roman Ghirshman *

Wolfram Kleiss Wolfram Kleiss (1930–2020) was a German archaeologist who spent many years of his life in Iran researching and excavating archeology. Biography He was director of the German Archaeological Institute in Tehran. He retired in 1995. and died in 2 ...

* Jean Perrot *

Henry T. Wright Henry Tutwiler Wright (born 1943) is an American archeologist and educator. Wright has had significant contributions to the field of archaeology through his fieldwork, publications, and teaching. He serves as the Albert Clanton Spaulding Distingui ...

Iranian archaeologists

Kamyar Abdi Kamyar Abdi ( fa, کامیار عبدی; born 1969) is an Iranian archaeologist. He is the editor of the Iranian ''Journal of Archaeology and History'', a research associate at the Iranian Center for Research on Humanities and Cultural Studies, a ...

(born 1969) Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age *

Abbas Alizadeh Abbas Alizadeh (born 1951) is an Iranologist and Persian archaeologist. Alizadeh is a senior research associate at the Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private ...

(born 1951) Iranian; Iran *

Massoud Azarnoush Massoud Azarnoush (25 March 1945 – 27 November 2008) was an Iranian archaeologist. He was born in Kermanshah. He received his MA from the department of archaeology at University of Tehran in 1972 and his PhD from the University of California, Lo ...

(1946–2008) Iranian; Sassanid archaeology * Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic * Touraj Daryaee (born 1967) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran) *

Seifollah Kambakhshfard Seifollah Kambakhshfard ( fa, سیف‌الله کامبخش‌فرد; March 21, 1929 – November 28, 2010) was an Iranian archaeologist, who specialized in archaeology and Ancient History of Iran. Education and career summary Born in Tehran, ...

(1929–2010) Iranian; Iron Age Temple of Anahita *

Yousef Majidzadeh Yousef Majidzadeh ( fa, یوسف مجیدزاده, born 1938) is an Iranian archaeologist and director of the excavations at Ozbaki, Qabristan and Jiroft. He is a native of Tabriz. In 2007, Majidzadeh presented a seminar in Kerman entitled “J ...

(born 1938) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran) * Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi (1940–2020) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran) *

Marjan Mashkour Marjan Mashkour ( fa, مرجان مشکور) is an archaeologist and member of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is the first Iranian to specialize in the field of zooarchaeology and has been engaged in many field and laborat ...

(born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology of Europe and the Middle East * Ezzat Negahban (1926–2009) Iranian; Iran *

Shahrokh Razmjou Shahrokh Razmjou is an Iranian archaeologist and historian, specializing in Achaemenid Archaeology and History. He received his PhD in Achaemenid Archaeology at the University of London. He established the Inscriptions Hall (1998–1999) and th ...

(1966) Iranian; Achaemenid Archaeology * Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (1951) Iranian; the British Museum's Curator of Middle Eastern coins *

Alireza Shapour Shahbazi Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (4 September 1942 Shiraz - 15 July 2006 Walla Walla, Washington'') ('' fa, علیرضا شاپور شهبازی) was a prominent Persian archeologist, archaeologist, Iranology, Iranologist and a world expert on Achaemenid a ...

(1942–2006) Iranian; Iran *

Parviz Varjavand Parviz Varjavand ( fa, پرویز ورجاوند, alao Romanized as "Parviz Varjāvand"; 5 January 1934 – 10 June 2007) was a notable Iranian archaeologist, researcher, university professor and politician who was a prominent member of Iran Natio ...

(1934–2007) Iranian; ancient Iran (Persia)

Archaeological institutions in Iran

Society for the National Heritage of Iran The Society for the National Heritage of Iran (SNH; fa, انجمن آثار ملی ایران, anjoman asar-e meli) was a grassroots political and archeological group created by a group of educated, and nationalistic Iranians in 1922, toward th ...

* Museum of Ancient Iran * National Museum of Iran *

Zagros Paleolithic Museum Zagros Paleolithic Museum ({{Lang-fa, موزه پارینه‌سنگی زاگرس) is a museum in Kermanshah, Iran, established in 2008. The museum contains a large collection of stone tools and animal fossil bones from various Paleolithic sites i ...

Iron Age museum The Iron Age museum is a museum in Tabriz, Iran. Established in 2006, the museum is built over an iron age archaeological site. The burial site was uncovered in 1997 during the reconstruction of the nearby Blue Mosque. The Iron Age museum now conta ...

Archaeological cultures in Iran

* Traditional water sources of Persian antiquity * Palaeolithic Era in Iran *

Bus Mordeh phase The Bus Mordeh phase is an archaeological phase in Khuzistan ( Ali Kosh) that is roughly dated somewhere between 8,200 BCE and 7,000 BCE. Hunter gatherers were still active but agricultural settlement had also started with emmer, wheat and two-r ...

* Kura-Araxes culture * Baradostian culture * Talish-Mugan culture * Trialetian Mesolithic *

Zarzian culture Zarzian culture is an archaeological culture of late Paleolithic and Mesolithic in Southwest Asia. The period of the culture is estimated to have existed about 18,000–8,000 BCE. It was preceded by the Baradostian culture in the same region ...

* Gutian people * Jiroft culture

References

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