From Hamshari, the village of Meimand with its architectural characteristics covering an area of 200,000 square meters has recently been recorded as a national monument.

Anshan, a great city, comparable to Elamite Susa and the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia in size and importance.

A team of Iranian archaeologists plans to study the lifestyle of inhabitants of the Iron Age site Shamshirgah in Qom Province through excavations and stratigraphy which will begin in the near future.

From Mehr News, a team of German students from the University of Tubingen and Iranian archaeologists will begin excavating a huge wall which was discovered in the 3400-year-old ruins of Kabnak in Khuzestan Province.

Provided a long uninterrupted sequence of prehistoric Susiana, but also yielded evidence of cultures much earlier than what had been previously known, pushing back the date of human occupation on the plain for at least one millennium.

From the Persian Journal, an animated piece on an earthen goblet that belongs to 5000 years ago was found in Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchistan province.

In terms of Lower Palaeolithic occupation, with only a handful of evidence including some core-chopper assemblages from gravel deposits along Ladiz, Mashkid, and Kashafrud rivers in eastern Iran and the west and north-western parts of the Zagros region. Antiquity Vol 78 No 302 December 2004

From Iran News, 5000-year-old burnt city, in eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, sacrificing human beings was a common practice in ancient times.

From the Art Newspaper, in January 2001 a group of Iranians from Jiroft in the southwestern province of Kerman stumbled upon an ancient tomb.

From the Persian Journal, the latest excavations in the archaeological site of Burnt City, in Sistan-Baluchistan has led to the discovery of a five-thousand-year old female skeleton which shows traces of macrocephaly.

From Tehran Times, Studies carried out on animals? bones discovered in the historical area of Jiroft have shown that five thousand years ago, its inhabitants used farm animals as their source of protein.

A short description of the religious center in ancient Media.

Excavations at Chogha Mish between 1961 and 1978.

Report on the excavations at Tall-e Bakun B by Alexander Langsdorff and Donald McCown in 1932, and later in 1937 by Eric Schmidt and McCown on behalf of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

From Iran News, Iranian archeologists working on the relics of the 5,000-year-old civilization argue this backgammon is much older than the one already discovered in Mesopotamia and their evidence is strong enough to claim the board game was first played in the Burnt City and then transferred to other civilizations.