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New research comparing Britain’s Boxgrove fossils and Spain’s Pit of Bones reveals a possible identity crisis among early humans, challenging what we know about Neanderthals, Homo heidelbergensis, and Europe’s earliest populations.
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Shahr-e Sukhteh, Iran’s 5,200-year-old Burnt City, reveals a powerful Bronze Age civilization advanced in medicine, engineering, art, and urban planning, challenging long-held beliefs about where and how civilization truly began.
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A mound in western Iran just yielded 7,000+ prehistoric seal impressions — the largest ancient administrative archive ever found. Two seasons of excavation, 132.5 sq meters, an entire Bronze Age bureaucracy. #Archaeology #AncientIran #BronzeAge @antiquity.ac.uk https://www.anthropology.net/p/7000-seal-impressions-from-a-forgotten

One of the world’s earliest surviving chess sets ♟️

This nearly complete set dates to the 12th century and is believed to come from Nishapur, Iran. Made of molded and glazed stonepaste, the pieces take beautifully abstract forms. This set is now preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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One of the world’s earliest surviving chess sets ♟️

This nearly complete set dates to the 12th century and is believed to come from Nishapur, Iran. Made of molded and glazed stonepaste, the pieces take beautifully abstract forms: the shah (king) appears as a throne, the vizier as a smaller throne, the elephant with tusk-like projections, the horse marked by a triangular head, the chariot shaped as a rectangular block with a wedge on top, and the pawns as faceted hemispheres with small knobs.

This set is now preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ibex motifs in the Near East linked to fertility, myth, and celestial symbolism

A recent study published in L’Anthropologie explains the symbolic meaning of the ibex in ancient Near Eastern and Iranian cultures and how this mountain goat became entangled in fertility, femininity, and cosmology across millennia...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/ibex-motifs-in-the-near-east-linked-to-fertility-myth/

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Ibex motifs in the Near East linked to fertility, myth, and celestial symbolism

A recent study published in L’Anthropologie explains the symbolic meaning of the ibex in ancient Near Eastern and Iranian cultures and how this mountain goat became entangled in fertility, femininity, and cosmology across millennia.

The ibex (Capra aegagrus), a wild goat native to Europe, Asia, and northeastern Africa, was materially and religiously significant during prehistoric times. Genetic evidence indicates that the species was domesticated about 10,000 years ago in the Zagros Mountains of Iran and eastern Anatolia, leading to the domestic goat—an animal crucial for milk, fiber, and meat production. But beyond its practical importance, the ibex became a profound cultural and religious symbol in prehistory...

Bronze Age burial of young woman unearthed in Iran reveals Greater Khorasan’s wealth and trade links

Archaeologists have unearthed the richest tomb to date at the Tepe Chalow site in eastern Iran, yielding new understanding of an enigmatic ancient cultural network now referred to as the Greater Khorasan Civilization (GKC)...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/bronze-age-burial-of-woman-iran-greater-khorasan/

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Bronze Age burial of young woman unearthed in Iran reveals Greater Khorasan’s wealth and trade links

Archaeologists have unearthed the richest tomb to date at the Tepe Chalow site in eastern Iran, yielding new understanding of an enigmatic ancient cultural network now referred to as the Greater Khorasan Civilization (GKC).

The grave, Grave 12, contained the remains of an under-18-year-old female and was filled with a collection of 34 grave goods, including gold jewelry, ivory pins, bronze tools, and delicately carved stone items made of chlorite, lapis lazuli, and limestone. This remarkable discovery adds to a growing body of evidence about the GKC, a Bronze Age culture that flourished in the late third and early second millennia BCE...

11,000-year-old feast in Iran’s Zagros Mountains reveals long-distance animal transport and early Neolithic social rituals

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that ancient human communities in western Iran, over 11,000 years ago, were engaging in grand feasting rituals with wild animals transported from far-off places, well before the dawn of agriculture...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/11000-year-old-feast-in-irans-zagros-mountains/

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11,000-year-old feast in Iran’s Zagros Mountains reveals long-distance animal transport and early Neolithic social rituals

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that ancient human communities in western Iran, over 11,000 years ago, were engaging in grand feasting rituals with wild animals transported from far-off places, well before the dawn of agriculture. The research, published in Communications Earth & Environment, is centered around discoveries at the Early Neolithic site of Asiab in the Zagros Mountains...

UNESCO adds Iran’s Khorramabad Valley to World Heritage List, highlighting 60,000 years of human history

In a historic event for archaeology and Iranian heritage, the Prehistoric Sites of the Khorramabad Valley were officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List at the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris on July 11, 2025...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/unesco-adds-irans-khorramabad-valley-to-world-heritage-list/

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