🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Loess Buried Camp East — Susiana (Ahvaz)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Classical
Loess Buried Camp East in Susiana, Iran is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Classical culture.
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🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Classical
Loess Buried Camp East in Susiana, Iran is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Kura-Araxes to Iron III (c.3000–600 BCE) · Kura-Araxes → Urmia ware → Urartian
30-m high mound near Khoy: massive Kura-Araxes burnished black-burnished, Urmia orange painted ware, Mitanni green-glazed cylinder seals, Urartian pillar hall, Sasanian church.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Middle Elamite (1500–1100 BCE) Kabnak · Elamite (Tepti-Ahar)
Chogha Zanbil Drained? Actually Haft Tepe — Kabnak Elamite City in Khuzestan Province, Iran is a Middle Elamite (1500–1100 BCE) Kabnak ancient-city attributed to Elamite (Tepti-Ahar).
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Elamite to Achaemenid (2700 BCE–330 CE) · Elamite / Achaemenid Susa
Susa — Ville Royale East Platform Extension in Khuzestan Province, Iran is a Elamite to Achaemenid (2700 BCE–330 CE) ancient-city attributed to Elamite / Achaemenid Susa.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Edfu Pyramid South in Khuzestan, Iran is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Maoling Mausoleum Mound East in Khuzestan, Iran is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Edfu Pyramid South in Khuzestan, Iran is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Iron Age II–III (c.1200–550 BCE) · Iranian Iron (Persian pre-history)
Qazvin plain Iron Age type-site: four-period red-slipped citadel with storeroom jars red-burnished late Bronze to Iron I transition, “Sagzabad Ware”.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
River Cut Section West in Susiana, Iran is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) tell attributed to Bronze Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Mizpe Zohar Tumulus in Khuzestan, Iran is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) pyramid attributed to Medieval culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age Jiroft–Shahdad (3000–2000 BCE) · Jiroft culture (Halil Rud)
Shahdad — Kerman Bronze Age Oasis in Kerman Province, Iran is a Early Bronze Age Jiroft–Shahdad (3000–2000 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Jiroft culture (Halil Rud).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (5000–2500 BCE) · Kerman Chalcolithic (Iblis)
Tal-i Iblis — Kerman Copper Workshop Tell in Kerman Province, Iran is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (5000–2500 BCE) tell attributed to Kerman Chalcolithic (Iblis).
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic (8000–6000 BCE) · Zagros Neolithic (Sarab)
Tepe Sarab — Kermanshah Neolithic Settlement in Kermanshah Province, Iran is a Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic (8000–6000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Zagros Neolithic (Sarab).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Urartian (8th–6th c. BCE; Argishti/Rusa) · Urartu
Small but classic Urartu hydraulic fortress damming a karstic spring valley NW of Khoy: cyclopean dam wall, rectangular fort, storage pithoi, Haldi-temple pebble mosaic, with red polish Urartu ware…
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, c.7000–800 BCE (massif c.3200 BCE) · Halaf / Ubaid / Uruk / Kura-Araxes
Central high mound at Chogha Gavaneh (7th–6th millennium BCE Neolithic to Bronze Age high platform, 15 m high, 80 m diameter).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Tepe Sarab ware (c.7000–5000 BCE) · Zagros Neolithic (Sarab culture)
Small but culturally seminal tell near Kermanshah at Sarab pass with Braidwood 1947 type-site red-painted Sarab ware, proto-domestic goat bones, and pisé hamlets preceding Jarmo and Hassuna…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Urartian Late (c.685–590 BCE) · Urartian
Largest Urartian fortress (8 ha, 700 m enclosure wall, 3 km circuit) founded by Rusa II (c.685 BC) at Bastam near Qarah...
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Urartian (685–612 BCE Rusa II) · Urartian Kingdom
Bastam — Urartian Fortress in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran is a Urartian (685–612 BCE Rusa II) fortress attributed to Urartian Kingdom.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Bronze to Iron II (c.1400–800 BCE) · Central Plateau Iron Age (grey ware → red ware) → Median precursor
Iron Age I–II fortified town (12 ha, 12 m high) on the Qazvin plain, excavated by E.O. Negahban. Early Iron (c.1400–900...
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Kura-Araxes to Iron Age (3200–800 BCE) · Kura-Araxes then Urmia ware
Tepe Bagh Azari — Urmia Bronze Mound in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran is a Kura-Araxes to Iron Age (3200–800 BCE) tell attributed to Kura-Araxes then Urmia ware.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (c.6000–4300 BCE) · Qazvin Plain Chalcolithic → Sialk I–II related
Chalcolithic painted-ware village (4 ha) on the Qazvin plain, excavated by Negahban and Malek Shahmirzadi. Late Neolithi...
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to EBA (c.4000–2900 BCE) · Sialk III–IV → Uruk-related → Early Bronze Central Plateau
Chalcolithic double-mound (5 ha) on the Qazvin plain, excavated by E.O. Negahban and later Tehran University. Sequence L...
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Neolithic to Achaemenid (c.7000 BCE–330 BCE; Achaemenid fortress c.550 BCE) · Neolithic Bakhtiari → Achaemenid pastoral fortress
Bolaghi valley Achaemenid route fortress (550 BCE) over Neolithic knoll between Pasargadae and Persepolis.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Median (c.750–550 BCE) · Median
Median period fire-temple complex (3 ha) on a low hill near Malayer, excavated by David Stronach. Median levels (c.750–5...