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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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Ancient Origins Mar 3

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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Anthropology.net Feb 23

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

7,000 Seal Impressions from a Forgotten Bureaucracy in the Central Zagros

What a mound in western Iran is telling us about the edges of the ancient world's first administrative networks

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Archaeology News

Dec 19

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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Archaeology News

Sep 3, 2025

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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Archaeology News

Aug 13, 2025

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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Archaeology News

Jul 25, 2025

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...

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Archaeology News

Jul 12, 2025

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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