AMIR HeydariTEHRAN, Dec. 21 (DID) – Every year on the last day of autumn, Iran marks Yalda Night, an ancient festival celebrating the winter solstice, the rebirth of the sun, and the symbolic triumph of light over darkness.
AMIR HeydariTEHRAN, Dec. 06 (DID) – Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old prehistoric village beneath the historic city of Dehdasht, shedding new light on the region’s Neolithic past and early urban development.
AMIR HeydariTEHRAN, Jan. 21 (DAY) – Deputy Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Ali Darabi has said that China’s Shanghai is the next destination to host ‘The Glory of Ancient Persia’ exhibition.
AMIR HeydariTEHRAN, Oct. 04 (DAY) – An Iranian official says a 10-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in the country’s northwestern Maragheh county in East Azarbaijan Province.
AMIR HeydariTEHRAN, Sep. 24 (DAY) – A meeting of the ministers of the Ancient Civilizations Assembly was held on Friday, September 22, with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian chairing the event at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
AMIR HeydariTEHRAN, Jun. 25 (DAY) – Iran’s chargé d’affaires to the United Kingdom says London has returned a third-century rock relief sculpture, which was gouged from a cliff in Iran and smuggled out of the country, to the Iranian embassy.
