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346 places in the atlas, 39 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Early Bronze (3000–2500 BCE) · Early Bronze (Arisman–Sialk IV)
Early Bronze (3000–2500 BCE) tell of Early Bronze (Arisman–Sialk IV) in Isfahan Province, Natanz (c.3000 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Iron Age III (900–600 BCE) · Mannaean–Scythian
Iron Age III (900–600 BCE) fortress of Mannaean–Scythian in Kurdistan Province, Saqqez (c.750 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Middle–Late Chalcolithic (5000–3500 BCE) · Dalma–Godin Chalcolithic
Middle–Late Chalcolithic (5000–3500 BCE) tell of Dalma–Godin Chalcolithic in Kermanshah Province, Kangavar Valley (c.5000 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic – Chalcolithic (7200–5000 BCE) · Archaic Susiana
Neolithic – Chalcolithic (7200–5000 BCE) tell of Archaic Susiana in Khuzestan Province, Susiana Plain (c.7200 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) · Iron Age Hasanlu LBA
Late Bronze–Iron (1500–800 BCE) tell of Iron Age Hasanlu LBA in West Azerbaijan, Ushnu-Solduz (c.1500 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Khwarazmian Late Islamic 1210 CE (Birjand) · Khwarazmian South Khorasan Birjand oasis
South Darreh arch-gravity 42 m × 18.2 m 8 m radius: conjunctive wadi+qanat 28,000 m³ south branch with cistern 8 m.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) · Iron Age Urmia
Iron Age I–III (1500–600 BCE) tell of Iron Age Urmia in West Azerbaijan, Lake Urmia SE (c.1300 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid to present (520 BCE–ongoing) · Achaemenid Gonabad oasis (Khorasan piedmont)
South Gonabad gallery 4.1 km with 62 shafts 42 m mother well: Achaemenid 520 BCE saruj, 12 L/s to Ghasemabad saffron.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid core 500 BCE to Sasanian 450 CE (extension) to present · Yazdi Zarch piedmont oasis (Kavir piedmont)
North Zarch extension 8.2 km with 88 shafts mother 34 m, 6 badgir towers 18 L/s: Sasanian 450 CE graft onto 500 BCE core.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Islamic (5600 BCE–1500 CE; urban peak MBA 2000–1500 BCE) · Zagros Chalcolithic → Early Dynastic Zagros → Old Babylonian peripheral → Kassite → Islamic
45 m Zagros mound with Old Babylonian archive linking Babylon to Iranian intermontane valley.
🇮🇷 Iran · Rock art
Mesolithic to Bronze Age (c.8000–2000 BCE) · Zagros rock-art tradition (pre-pottery to Bronze)
Lorestan painted cave 40 m galleries (150+ black/red paintings, hunters/ibex, c.8–2 ka) in Kuhdasht.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.4000–2700 BCE) · Seimareh valley Chalcolithic → Transcaucasian Early Bronze
Seimareh cemetery mound 15 ha (140 EB cist graves, bronze daggers, c.4–3 ka) in Seimareh valley.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Neolithic to Medieval (c.4200 BCE–1218 CE; Elamite capital c.2700–646 BCE; Achaemenid palace 522–331 BCE) · Elamite / Persian Achaemenid / Seleucid / Parthian / Sassanian
Elamite capital then Achaemenid administrative capital (Darius I, 522 BCE), Susa preserves mound sequence from 4200 BCE: Apadana of Darius (36 limestone columns, glazed brick friezes of Immortals and…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic to Sasanian (c.5000 BCE–600 CE) · Fars Chalcolithic → Elam → Persian
Mamasani multiperiod tell 8 m high (Neolithic–Sasanian 6k yr, Bakun–Banesh–Kaftari) west Fars.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic Neolithic (c.8500–7700 BCE) · Zagros PPN (Sheikh-e Abad horizon)
Sahneh PPN mound (8500 BCE) with plastered houses and early goat — sister to Ganj Dareh.
