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Officials from Iran National Museum are in talks with their counterparts from the British Museum to borrow the famous Charter of the Cyrus the Great for a few months to put it on public display at home. Deputy chairman of…
[ad#imapnov08] The Walker Art Center is due to screen five narrative and documentary films by aspiring Iranian filmmakers in Minneapolis, US. Views from Iran will screen Manijeh Hekmat's Three Women (March 11), Pouria Azarbaijani's Unfinished Stories (April 1), Abdolreza Kahani's…
[ad#imapnov08] Hamadan Province in western Iran has yielded an underground city, which is believed by archeologists to date back to pre-Parthian eras. Archeologists found 25 of the underground citys rooms, halls and corridors in a 4-meter-deep site in Samen located…
[ad#imapnov08] Irans Zoroastrian community held the Jashn-e-Sadeh Festival for celebrating the discovery of fire on the 10th of the Iranian month of Bahman (Jan. 29). Considered one of the biggest Persian festivities in ancient times, Jashn-e-Sadeh (also known as the…
[ad#imapnov08] An Iranian archaeological team has recently discovered ten Parthian era jar burials at the Nakhl-e Ebrahim site in Hormuzgan Province. The burials were unearthed during the second season of excavations carried out to save artifacts and information from the…
Jashn-e Sade/Sadeh (in Persian: جشن سده), is an ancient Iranian tradition celebrated before nowrouz. Sadeh meaning hundred, is a mid winter feast celebrated with grandeur and magnificence in ancient Iran. It was a festivity to honor fire and to defeat…
The devastating earthquake at Bam, Iran on December 26, 2003 killed more than 43,000 people injured 20,000 and left 60,000 homeless. The magnitude 6.5 earthquake destroyed the town and the 2000-year-old Arg-e-Bam citadel - one of Iran's major tourist attractions.…
Iranians annually celebrate the Hafez Day on October 11, during which they gather and hold talks on the poetry, thoughts, and life of Hafez. Khwaja Shams-ud-din Mohammed Hafez e Shirazi, Hafiz or simply Hafez (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی),…