Iran is the Middle East jewel Tourism cautiously returns to this Middle East jewel According to the New York Times, Iran should be one of the tourist destinations to visit in 2019. This American newspaper with worldwide influence and readership mentioned “the monumental ruins of ancient Persia, the spectacular, centuries-old mosques of Shiraz and Isfahan, the Grand Bazaar and Golestan […]
READ MOREAchaemenid 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 […]
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