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Archaeological sites in Iran

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  1. Abyaneh: Abyaneh is a famous historic Iranian village near the city of Kashan in Isfahan Province. ...
  2. Archaeological sites in Iran: Some of the prehistoric archaeological sites of Iran are listed below: ...
  3. Bardak Siah Palace: Bardak Siah Palace was the name of ancient Persian king's palace situated near township of Dashtestan in the northern part of Bu...
  4. Darband Cave: Darband Cave is located in the Western Alborz range and contains the first known evidence for Lower Paleolithic cave occupation ...
  5. Dashtestan: Dashtestan is a township in the northern part of Bushehr Province of Iran. It is the largest of Bushehr's nine municipalities, ...
  6. Eshkaft-e Siahoo: Eshkaft-e Siahoo, which means "black cave" in the dialect of the people of the region, is a 10,000-year-old neolithic stone dwel...
  7. Essaqwand Rock Tombs: The Essaqwand Rock Tombs are three rock-hewn tombs located 25 km southwest of Harsin in Kermanshah Province, Iran. On top ...
  8. Ganj Par: The Lower Paleolithic site of Ganj Par is located at Gilan province, at north of Iran. It was discovered by a team of archaeolog...
  9. Godin Tepe: Godin Tepe is a prehistoric settlement in western Iran, situated in the valley of Kangavar. Discovered in 1961, the site was exc...
  10. Gorgan: Gorgan is the capital of the Golestan Province, Iran. It is approximately 400 km from Tehran. It had an estimated population o...
  11. Haft Tepe: Haft Tepe is an archaeological site situated in the Khuzestan Province in southwestern Iran. At this site the remains of the Ela...
  12. Hilleh Historical Village: Hilleh Historical Village is a special sub-ground historical village in Osku, Iran in the vicinity of Kandovan. Currently nobody...
  13. Konar Sandal: Konar Sandal is a Bronze Age archaeological site, situated just south of Jiroft, Kerman Province, Iran. ...
  14. Kura-Araxes culture: The Kura-Araxes culture or the Early trans-Caucasian culture, was a civilization that existed from 3400 B.C until about 2000 B.C...
  15. Mount Khajeh: Mount Khwaja or Mount Khwajeh is a flat-topped black basalt hill rising up as as an island in the middle of Lake Hamun, in the ...
  16. Musasir: Musasir was an ancient Mannaean city, acquired by the Urartian king Ishpuini ca. 800 BC (see the Kelashin Stele). ...
  17. Pasargadae: Pasargadae was a city in ancient Persia, and is today an archaeological site and one of only five of Iran's UNESCO World Herita...
  18. Salt Men: The Salt Man was discovered in Iran, in the Chehrabad salt mines located on the southern part of the Hamzehlu village, on the we...
  19. Sari, Iran: Sari is the provincial capital of Mazandaran, located in the north of Iran, between the northern slopes of the Alborz Mountains...
  20. Sefid-Ab: Sefid-Ab is an archeological site in central Iran and is the first known evidence for Upper Paleolithic occupation of that regio...
  21. Shahr-i Sokhta: Shahr-e Sukhte "Burnt City" is an archaeological site of a sizable Bronze Age urban settlement, associated with the Jiroft cult...
  22. Susa: Susa (Biblical (Shushan); also Greek: Soysa, transliterated as Sousa; Latin Susa) was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian a...
  23. Takht-i-Suleiman: For the similarly named locations see Takht-e-Sulaiman in Balochistan, and Sulayman Mountain near Osh, Kyrgyzstan. ...
  24. Tangeh Bolaghi: Tangeh Bolaghi, also transliterated as Tange-ye Bolaghi Pronounced Tange-ye Bolaghi, where "ye" is for ezafe, and is usually omi...
  25. Tappeh Sialk: Sialk is a large ancient archeological site near Kashan, ...
  26. Taq-e Bostan: Taqwasan or Taq-e Bostan or Taq-i-Bustan is a series of large rock relief from the era of Sassanid Empire of Persia, the Irania...
  27. Tepe Yahya: Tepe Yahya is an archaeological site in Kerman, Iran, some 220 km south of Kerman and 90 km south-west of Jiroft. It was excava...
  28. Teppe Hasanlu: Teppe Hasanlu or Tappeh Hassanlu is an archeological site of an ancient Mannaean cityThe Cambridge History of Iran . Cambridge ...
  29. Warwasi: Warwasi is a Paleolithic rockshelter site located at north of Kermanshah in western Iran. It was excavated by Bruce Howe under ...
  30. Ziwiye hoard: The Ziwiye hoard is a treasure hoard containing gold, silver, and ivory objects, included a few Luristan pieces, that was uncove...

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