IRAN HIGHLIGHTS , TRAVELOG : We are now in Kurdistan. The other day we arrived in Hamedan , and checked into the worst hotel we’ve been at yet. Because It is a national holiday , the large park and square across from the hotel was filled with thousands of people “ picnicking “ .
IRAN HIGHLIGHTS : Camel riding around one the oldest cities of Iran could be interesting for many people. You can travel to different historical periods of Iran while riding a camel.
There are many different historical monuments in this old city. For example Deyr-e Gachin caravansary is one of these old famous monuments which belong to Sassanid era. In that time it was a Zoroastrian temple and in Safavid period ( 1501 – 1736 ) it changed to a caravansary.
TehranTimes – Culture Desk : Tehran – A team of U.S. and Iranian archaeologists working on Iran`s historical port of Siraf has recently discovered some construction materials during their underwater excavations on the shore of the Persian Gulf.
Persepolis is one of the most important ancient sites of Achaemenid period which about 2500 years ago was started to be built in the reign of Darius the Great and continued to be built for 120 years. The ancient site of Persepolis , with 13,500 square meters area , consists of several palaces , stairs , columns & two stone graveyards whose number of inscriptions, engraved on them, exceeds 3000.
TEHRANTIMES , Iran Highlights , Travelogue : We continued walking around Persepolis taking picture of this great wonder. We met up with our guide at the entrance of Persepolis and headed to our next destination.
TEHRANTIMES , Art Desk : TEHRAN - A cemetery dating back to 3500 years ago has been discovered in the Taj Amir region near the city of Yasuj in the Southwestern Iranian province of Kohkiluyeh - Boyer Ahmad.
Over 20 graves have been excavated so far by an archaeological team in the cemetery , which covers an area of over 60,000 square meters , team director Mohammad Rajabi told the Persian service of IRNA on Friday.
TEHRANTIMES , Culture Desk : Tehran – A team of Iranian archaeologists has recently discovered 20 meters of a canal of the sewage system of Persepolis in southern Iran.
On Sunday, May 27th, Zclasses of Northern California along with PZO 16 Arranged a group Sedreposhi for willing students of the Avesta class, Kiarash and Shirin Mavandadi, Aryana and Kamran Setudeh, Farzan falah, Asha Anushe.
The Bisotun inscriptions of Darius the Great engraved on a rock near the city of Kermanshah are scheduled to be readed by four experts from foreign academic centers in the near future.
Professor Parviz Shahriyari was born on November 22, 1926 in Kerman. He went to school at the age of 6. Six years later he began teaching math to his classmates, the hobby that endured to his high school days.
