TEHRAN – A team of Iranian experts has finished work to help conserve old trees at the UNESCO-registered Fin Garden in central Iran. 

“A budget of 17 billion rials ($57,000) has been allocated to the preservation project and organizing the green space of the historical garden,” IRNA quoted a local tourism official as saying on Wednesday. 

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TEHRAN – “Ibn Tufayl: Living the Life of Reason” by Taneli Kukkonen, a professor of philosophy at NYU Abu Dhabi, has been published in Persian.

Naamak is the publisher of the book rendered into Persian by Parisa Sajjadi.

Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185) was an Andalusian courtier, philosopher, Sufi master and royal physician to the Almohad Caliphs. 

He inspired

TEHRAN – An ancient cemetery bearing urn-like tombs has accidentally been discovered in an oil drilling project off the river Karun in Ahvaz, southwest Iran.

Situated about 150 meters from the river, the cemetery has yielded ancient human remains some beige-colored urn tombs that are coated with natural tar, Iranian archaeologist Hossein Feizi told

TEHRAN – “A Girl in Exile”, a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, has been published in Persian by Chatrang in Tehran.

First published in Albanian in 2009, the book has been translated into Persian by Mahmud Gudarzi.

The story is set among the bureaucratic machinery of Albania's 1945-1991 dictatorship. While waiting to hear whether his newest