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346 places in the atlas, 39 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Middle Chalcolithic (5000–4000 BCE) · Dalma–Pisdeli Chalcolithic
Middle Chalcolithic (5000–4000 BCE) tell of Dalma–Pisdeli Chalcolithic in West Azerbaijan, Urmia Plain (c.5000 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I–II (5000–2800 BCE) · Dalma → Pisdeli → Kura-Araxes (Transcaucasian)
Araxes floodplain tell with Dalma–Kura-Araxes sequence linking Urmia to Transcaucasia.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Ilkhanid branch on Achaemenid–Sasanian trunk · Ilkhanid Yazd (branch) on Persian qanat tradition
Qanat-e Zarch west: 11.2-km Ilkhanid branch of world's longest 71-km Yazd qanat, UNESCO 1476.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic–Transitional Chalcolithic (c.7500–4500 BCE) · Jeitun-related → Cheshmeh Ali (Northeast Iran Neolithic)
Shahroud two-mound Neolithic tell (c.7500–4500 BCE, West PPN timber, East painted, 1400 m) at Shahrud.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (4000–3500 BCE, Bakun) · Bakun A Chalcolithic
Late Chalcolithic (4000–3500 BCE, Bakun) Bakun A Chalcolithic tell at Fars Province, Persepolis plain – proto-urban chalcolithic painted-pottery centre (dims Mound 2 ha, Bakun A workshops).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic–Chalcolithic (c.6000–4500 BCE, Mushki–Bashi–Bakun) · Fars Neolithic Mushki → Bashi → Bakun
Ramjerd Neolithic tell 5 m high (Mushki–Shamsabad, early painted Mushki ware) NW of Persepolis.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Transitional Chalcolithic to Late Chalcolithic (c.5300–3400 BCE) · Cheshmeh Ali → Pardis Transitional Chalcolithic → Late Chalcolithic
Tehran Plain kiln centre (5300 BCE) with 12 two-chamber updraft kilns producing Cheshmeh Ali ware.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qajar to Pahlavi (1910–1930) · Qajar Persian garden culture (Birjand Alam dynasty)
1910 Qajar 12-m arch 35 m on Darreh valley feeding Birjand Akbariye Persian garden and Arg via 2 km qanat.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sassanian 470 CE to Safavid UNESCO 2011 · Sassanian hydraulic engineers; Safavid Shah Abbas I
Sassanian qanat (5th c. CE, 12 km, 400 shafts) feeding Fin Garden, UNESCO Persian Garden archetype hydraulic core.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Early Bronze (3500–2900 BCE) · Kura-Araxes Early Bronze
Early Bronze (3500–2900 BCE) ancient-city of Kura-Araxes Early Bronze in East Azerbaijan, Moghan (c.3350 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sassanian 6th c. to Ilkhanid 1226 CE to present · Sassanian then Islamic Yazd hydraulic community
12th century high-discharge qanat (14 km, 320 shafts, 190 L/s) feeding Ghasemabad bagh and Yazd mills.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Iron Age to Sassanian (Achaemenid to late antiquity) · Persian (Achaemenid–Sassanian) hydraulicians
Oldest functioning qanat 33 km, 360-m mother well, Achaemenid c.700 BCE, 150 L/s Persian Qanat UNESCO.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic to Sasanian (5000 BCE–600 CE) · Gorgan Bronze–Iron
Neolithic to Sasanian (5000 BCE–600 CE) tell of Gorgan Bronze–Iron in Golestan Province, Gorgan Plain (c.5000 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 · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Shahr-e Sukhteh Burnt City Pyramid Structure 10 in Sistan, Shahr-e Sukhteh, Iran is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic (c.11700–3600 BCE) · PPNA → PPNB → Early Chalcolithic (Seimareh Neolithic)
Seimareh 10kyr Neolithic tell 8 m (c.11.7–3.6 ka, 12000 plant samples, pisé) near Seimareh valley.
🇮🇷 Iran · Cave
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (c.54,000–30,000 BP) · Zagros Mousterian → Baradostian
Khorramabad MP–UP cave 5 m (54–30 ka, first Baradostian 54 ka, AMH beads) 5 km N Khorramabad.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic–Early Ceramic Neolithic (7100–5500 BCE) · Zagros Neolithic (Guran)
Aceramic–Early Ceramic Neolithic (7100–5500 BCE) Zagros Neolithic (Guran) tell at Lorestan Province, Hulailan Plain, Zagros – campsite-to-village neolithic sequence in zagros (dims Mound 8 m, Guran PHASES a–j).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.5000–2900 BCE) · Qazvin plain Chalcolithic (Zagheh–Qabrestan)
Qazvin tell 12 m high (c.5000–2900 BCE, Zagheh→Qabrestan, cemetery) south of Qazvin.
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Sanctuary of Furnace in Fars Province, Iran is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) temple complex attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Cave
Middle Palaeolithic to Epipalaeolithic (c.80,000–15,000 BP) · Zagros Mousterian → Baradostian → Zarzian
Dasht-e Boof Palaeolithic shelter 2 m (80–15 ka, Neanderthal parietal, Zarzian microliths) at 1350 m.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late 5th millennium BCE · Kerman Chalcolithic
Late 5th millennium BCE Kerman Chalcolithic tell at Kerman Province, Bam plain – chalcolithic village near bam with mudbrick houses (dims Mound 3 ha, 6 m Chalcolithic).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Tell el-Qasr Ditch in Fars Province, Iran is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) tell attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Bronze to Iron Age (c.2500 BCE–800 BCE; peak 2000–1500 BCE) · Caspian Bronze → Iron I (Amlash–Hasanlu sphere)
Gohar Tepe near the Caspian is the largest Bronze–Iron mound in Mazandaran — 50 ha with stratigraphy ca.2500 BCE to Iron I, revealing Caspian–Central Asian bron...
