Pleistocene (c. 2.6 million years ago to c. 11,700 years ago)
Upper Paleolithic Era (c. 50,000-12,000 years ago)
- Traces of Early Humans Discovered in Southern Iran
- Kaldar cave in Iran estimated to date over 63,000 years
- Archaeologists find New Evidence of Paleolithic Era in Iranian Cave
Neolithic Era (c. 10,200 to 4500-2000 BCE)
- Nidhi Subbaraman: Early humans in Iran were growing wheat 12,000 years ago
- Petroglyphs hold clues to 14,000 years of human life in Iran
Persian Gulf in pre-History
Ancient Tehran, Qom and Rayy Regions
Central Iran: Sialk
- 6000 Year old Mysterious Ritual uncovered at Sialk
- Book (2019): Tappeh Sialk: Glory of Ancient Kashan
West-Central Iran
South-Central Iran
Northwest Iran
- The New York Times: For Wine, 5000 B.C. Was Quite a Year
- The 2,800 Year Embrace in the Hasanlu Tomb
- The Ancient and Mysterious Cemetery of Yeri in Ardabil
Northeast Iran
- Rock art from unknown ancient civilization in Pir-e Mazar village
- Human remains from Ancient Neysahbur (Nishabur)
- Archaeologists Discover Evidence of Early Administration in Northeast Iran
Southeast Iran: Shahr-e Sookhteh (Burnt City)
- An Overview of the Ancient “Shahr-e Sukhte” (Burnt City)
- The “Pompei of the East”: Iran’s Shahr-e Sookhteh (Burnt City)
- World’s oldest known artificial eye
- World’s oldest Backgammon game?
- Ancient measuring ruler
- Reconstruction of the Face of a 5000-year old Woman in Iran
- World’s Oldest Example of Pictorial Animation
- Shahr e Sookhteh yields Rare 4000 year old Relics
Southeast Iran: Jiroft and Kerman Province
- The ancient Civilization of Jiroft
- Buried for 4000 years, the Jiroft Culture could expand the ‘Cradle of Civilization’
- Jiroft: The Forgotten Civilizational Legacy of Ancient Iran –جیرفت زادگاهی از تمدن جهان– (Video)
- Jiroft and the Aratta Kingdom
- The Jiroft Conference of 2008
- Iran daily News (November 14, 2009): Jiroft Linked to Aratta Kingdom (pdf)
- Maymand, an Exemplar Manmade-Cave dwelling
- The Ziggurat of Jiroft: Largest and Oldest of its Type in the World?
Southwest Iran
Bronze Age (c.3300-1200 BCE)
Northwest Iran
Elam
- The History of Elam. Encyclopedia Iranica (to be posted in 2025)
- –اطلس تاريخی ايران-Historical Atlas of Iran:-ايلاميان كه بودند؟-Who were the Elamites?
Susa and Elamite Architecture
- The Ancient city of Susa
- The Ancient and Enigmatic Site of Susa
- Susa: Capital of Elam (video)
- The Elamite site of Dur Untash or Choqa-Zanbil
- The Forgotten and Ancient City of Dastova
Elamite Archaeology
Linear Elamite Script
- Decipherment of 4,400-year-old Iranian Linear Writing from Elam
- Correcting Misconceptions from a Smithsonian Magazine Article on Linear Elamite Research
- Linear Elamite Deciphered!
- Mysterious Script of Biblical Elam Is Deciphered After 5,000 Years
- Decoding of an Enigmatic Puzzle
Elamite Texts & Language
The Medes
- The Median Empire: The First Iranian Dynastic Empire
- Map of the Median Empire
- Farrokh, K., Maksymiuk, K., Skupniewicz, P., & Fathi, S. (2022). An overview of military confrontations between the Assyrian Army against the Medes in the 7th centuries BCE. HISTORIA I ŚWIAT: ACTA MILITARIA IRANICA, 11, pp.125-144.
- Farrokh, K. (2023). Military Interactions between the Neo-Assyrian Army and Ancient Iranian Peoples: Implications for the Development of Cavalry Warfare. In D. Toichkin (ed.), History of Antique Arms – Researches 2020: Collection of Scientific Papers, Kyiv, Ukraine: Stylos, pp.140-158. – News Release
- Hegmataneh Hill one step closer to World Heritage Designation
- Mede Empire Fort Discovered in Northeast Iran
