Archaeology
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- Aceramic Period Cyprus
- Article on the Aceramic Period of Khirokitia dated to the sixth millennium BCE. The settlement displays cosmopolitan contacts with adjacent Palaeolithic societies in the Mediterranean.
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- Agia Varvara-Almyras Research Project
- Study of ancient copper production on Cyprus. The project is a joint-venture between the Archaeometallurgical Project of Agia Varvara-Almyras in Cyprus, the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research and the Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research. Site also available in German.
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- Cyprus Archaeology
- Site devoted to Cyprus and Cypriot Archaeology. Lists of sites, periods, projects, and museums.
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- Excavations at Politiko Phorades
- A Late Bronze Age Cypriot copper mining site, the excavation is part of the Sydney Cyprus Survey Project investigating ancient mining and landscape archaeology in Cyprus.
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- Sydney Cyprus Survey Project
- An interdisciplinary regional survey project in the Northern Troodos foothills, Central Cyprus, by the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow.
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- The Cyprus Treasure
- An evolving electronic library of historic monuments of ancient and Byzantine Cyprus.
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- The Earliest Prehistory of Cyprus
- A number of scientific articles provided by the American Schools of Oriental Research. [PDF]
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- BBC: Bronze Age Perfume Discovered
- Italian archaeologists in Cyprus say they have found the site of an ancient perfume factory from the Bronze Age. (March 19, 2005)
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- One Cannot Export a Palace on Board a Ship
- From Backdirt, Aegean influences on Cypriot architecture toward the end of the Late Bronze Age, 13th century bce. (January 01, 2000)
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- Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
- Forum for the exchange of information about the art, archaeology, culture and civilization of Iranian peoples. News, images, events.
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- Cosmological and Ideological Aspects of the Arjan Bowl
- Iranica Antique 4. In 1982 in the vicinity of Arjan, 10 km north of Behbahan, a bronze bowl measuring 43.5 cm in diameter was found inside a rectangular tomb built of stone slabs. [PDF]
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- University of Chicago Returns Ancient Persian Tablets Loaned by Iran
- From University of Chicago News Office, Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian Empire, to the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, the national antiquities department, in the first return of loaned archaeological items there since the 1979 revolution.
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- Lafourak Male Skeleton Wears Gold and Silver Earrings
- From Iran News, a male skeleton wearing a gold earring on his right ear and a silver one on his left. From a historical graveyard dating to 2800 years ago located in the northern province of Mazandaran. (May 31, 2005)
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- Human Settlement in Iran's Central Plateau Dates back to 10,000 Years Ago
- From Iran News, farmers activities in Togh Tepe of Mazandaran province, resulted in the accidental discovery of the oldest pottery ever found in the area. Studies carried out on the artifacts have shown that humans have lived in the central plateau of Iran since 9 or 10 thousand years ago. (March 09, 2005)
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- Girl with Silver Earrings Found in the Burnt City
- From Iran News, archaeologists working on the historical site of the Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchistan have unearthed for the first time ever the body of a woman with silver earrings remained at sides of her head. (March 05, 2005)
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- Iranian Archeologists to Identify Jiroft Ancient Quarries
- From Payvand, archeologists intend to establish the way Iranians mined these quarries over 5,000 years ago and carried the stones to their city, today located in the southern province of Kerman. (July 18, 2004)
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- Iran's Sleeping Parthian City to Awaken
- Iranian archeologists are seeking for public funding to explore the ruins of a vast urban citadel, left from the Parthian dynasty (247 B.C.E.-226 C.E.), in Khorasan Province (July 16, 2004)
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- Jiroft a Key Business Hub 5,000 Years Ago
- From Payvand, new archeological and art studies on insignias unearthed in the Iranian ancient site of Jiroft clearly shows that the southern area used to be the most important business nucleus of Persia and its residents had bustling trade ties with people living in other parts of the country. (April 15, 2004)