Shahr-e Sookhteh (Burnt City)

• World’s first example of Pictorial animation
• 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 (coming soon)

Sialk

• 6000 Year old Mysterious Ritual uncovered at Sialk

Jiroft

• Jiroft: The Forgotten Civilizational Legacy of Ancient Iran -جیرفت زادگاهی از تمدن جهان- (Video)
• The Jiroft Conference of 2008
• Iran daily News (November 14, 2009): Jiroft Linked to Aratta Kingdom (pdf)
• Oscar White Muscarella: Jiroft and “Jiroft-Aratta” – A Review Article of Yousef Madjidzadeh “Jiroft: The Earliest Oriental Civilization” (pdf)

Luristan

• Freya Stark (1932). Bronzes of Luristan. The Geographical Journal, Vol. 80, No. 6 (Dec.), pp. 498-505  (pdf)
• Hessamoddin Shafeian: The influence of Luristan arts on later Iranian civilizations (in Persian)

Elam

• Elam History in Maps
• The History of Elam. Encyclopedia iranica (Under Construction)
• The Forgotten and Ancient City of Dastova
• Susa: Capital of Elam (video)
• Pictures of Choqazanbil-عکسهای برگزیده ی معبد چغازنبیل شوش-
• -اطلس تاريخی ايران-Historical Atlas of Iran:-ايلاميان كه بودند؟-Who were the Elamites?

Pantheon & Theology

• Professor Walther Hinz (1965). The Elamite God d.AGAL. JNES, pp. 351-354 (pdf).

Texts & Language

• Professor David McAlpin: Elamite and Dravidian: Further Evidence of a Relationship (pdf). Current Anthropology, Volume 16, No.1, March 1975,
• Professor Sylvie Lackenbacher: Non-Elamtie Texts in Elam

Media

• Professor Mario Liverani (2001). Rise and Fall of Media (pdf)
• Professor J.D.A. MacGinnis: Ctesias and the Fall of Nineveh (pdf)
• Professor A.D.H. Bivar (1989). The Allegory of Astyages (pdf)
• Professor David Mackenzie (1959). Language of the Medians (pdf)
• Bahram Roshan Zamir:-ایران پیش از آریاییان تا کوروش بزرگ  - (Iran prior to the Aryans to the arrival of Cyrus the Great (in Persian) (pdf)

Modern Archaelogical Research Techniques

• Pollefeys, N., Van Gool, L., Vergauwen, M., Cornelis, K., Verbiest, F., & Tops, J. (2003). 3D recording for Archaelogical Fieldwork. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May-June, pp.2-9. (pdf)
• Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script

Links & Resources

• Cultural Heritage News Agency of Iran   -خبرگزاري ميراث فرهنگي-