A new PNAS study reports an intentionally incised flint flake bearing a cross‑hatched geometric pattern from Üçağızlı II Cave (Hatay, Türkiye), dated to ~59–77 ka. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Shattered tiles, trembling domes: An inside look at how the war has damaged Iran’s historic sites www.reuters.com/investigates...

Iran : le musée du #Paléolithique du Zagros, un patrimoine en péril après les frappes du 9 mars. www.faton.fr/iran-le-muse...

Gav Bast Mountain: A #Neolithic Landscape in Southern Iran. www.tehrantimes.com/news/526981/...

Visit the exhibition here: explore.iranmuseum.org/HormuzExhibi...

The virtual exhibition " #Hormuz : Maritime Highway" opened today at the National Museum of Iran. In-person and online. Four sections: archaeology, heritage, human and sea, intangible heritage. A story of life along the #PersianGulf.

The Zagros #Paleolithic Museum in Kermanshah — home to Paleolithic/Neolithic lithic artifacts and faunal remains — has been damaged by blast waves from recent US airstrikes www.tehrantimes.com/news/526652/...

#AlmostAdam – an American anthropologist in Africa, a tribe that might rewrite evolution, and a 90s thriller. Picked this up at a used bookshop in Tehran.

After seeing the Spanish works (including Picasso) at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the spring sky was partly cloudy and blue — a rare clarity over Tehran.

Exhibition ‘Hormuz: The Maritime Highway’ to be held online. www.tehrantimes.com/news/526557/...

#Neanderthal child's upper premolar #Wezmeh Cave (Zagros, Iran) | ~40–70 ka First direct evidence of Neanderthals on the Iranian Plateau. Associated #Mousterian lithics indicate the cave was used sporadically by Neanderthals. 📷 Iran National Museum, no. 2121 | Size: 16×12×8 mm

New evidence from Iran's Makran coast documents Lower & Middle Paleolithic occupations in a key Pleistocene dispersal corridor. The Makran region bridged Arabia/Levant to South/East Asia, filling a major gap between Pakistan & the Strait of Hormuz. www.academia.edu/165986821/Br...

Resources, Networks and Transformations in Southeastern Iran: Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives, edited by Wulf-Marten Frauen, Sabine Klocke-Daffa, and Mohammad Karami. Available for free download at: publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/170764

The latest Journal of Iran National Museum (Vol. 4, Iss. 1) is out now! Read it for free, and don't miss the Call for Papers for our next issue (Deadline: March 2026). 👉 jinm.irannationalmuseum.ir?lang=en

Iran’s Neolithic communities excelled in antler craft, research shows. www.tehrantimes.com/news/523956/...

Interdisciplinary bioarchaeological research (lipid residues analysis of prehistoric pottery, faunal and human remains) document Neolithic consumption of caprine milk 9000 years ago in the Iranian Plateau. @umr-bioarch.bsky.social @cnrs.fr & @mnhn.fr) #LSCE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The edited volume ResourceScapes in the Iranian Highlands: Soils, Water, Wind and Minerals as Factors of Appropriation and Integration has recently been published by Sidestone Press Academics (2025). This work, the third in the series The Iranian Highlands.

In the Aknoon studio, I had the unique experience of a two-hour, in-depth conversation with Soroush Sehat on Paleolithic Iran, Neanderthals, and the dawn of human art in Iran. #aknoon #soroushsehat

A cloudy sky on the last day of 2025.

Fossilien-Funde im Iran offenbaren das Leben vor 70.000 Jahren www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/panorama/art...

Honored to host a delegation from the National Museum of #Tajikistan .Held fruitful discussions on deepening our cultural ties, planning joint exhibitions, and expert collaboration—especially in restoration. I was pleased to later guide our guests through the "Narrators of Ancient Iran" exhibition.

New Thesis: #GanjDareh Burial Rituals The Master's thesis of Stéphanie Falardeau (supervised by Prof. Julien Riel-Salvatore) is now available. This research re-evaluates 1970s excavation archives from Ganj Dareh, a key early Neolithic site in Iran. umontreal.scholaris.ca/items/fbbbba...

Back at #PACEA (University of Bordeaux) after over a decade. My heartfelt thanks to Jacques and Anne.

National conference reviews technology use in salvage archaeology for dam projects www.tehrantimes.com/news/521344/...

Excavations reveal secrets of seasonal pastoral camp in Hawraman Mountains www.tehrantimes.com/news/521088/...

Narrators of Ancient Iran’ extended after popular demand. www.tehrantimes.com/news/520778/...

The 'Bone Glasses' That Weren't Actually Glasses www.tehrantimes.com/news/520680/...

Early Sassanian natural mummy on public display. www.tehrantimes.com/news/520130/...

Open access:Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open Access: Landscape affordances, GIS, and the hunting landscape of rock art in the Central Iranian Plateau www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Download the Persian version of "The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire " here: irannationalmuseum.ir/fa/product/%...

Village Life at Prehistoric Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan Edited by Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck & Ilia Heit | 2025, www.sidestone.com/books/villag...

Unpacking the Neolithic: Assessing the Relevance of the Neolithic Construct in Light of Recent Research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Significant New Acheulean Assemblage Found in Southern Iran www.tehrantimes.com/news/519635/...

Iran-China relations through the ages: interview with National Museum director www.tehrantimes.com/news/519448/...

Narrators of Ancient Iran’ on view at National Museum. www.tehrantimes.com/news/518737/...

Photographs from the 1965 Tokyo University Iran Archaeological Expedition to Taq-i-Bustan in western Iran. Explore the database here: [https://umdb.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/DKoukoga/TAQ_1965_photo/database/photolist.php?-skip=0]

Met Museum’s tiny clay figurine reveals ancient origins of the mighty Hyrcanian tiger. www.tehrantimes.com/news/518132/...

#Ghamari_cave #Neanderthal #zagros

New evidence for Pleistocene hominin presence in the north-east Arabian Desert, Iraq www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

From the heart of ancient Lorestan: a masterpiece revealed beneath the full moon, to the eternal sound of Sorna and Dohol. www.instagram.com/stories/fere...

6,000-year-old fishing village reveals ancient maritime diet and fishing technology in Iran’s Makran. www.tehrantimes.com/news/517025/...