TEHRAN – Iran shared the spoils in a 19-19 draw with Guinea in the opening match of the 23rd IHF Women’s Junior (U20) Handball World Championship on Wednesday.

Iran will play Tunisia in Group B on Thursday.

The 32 teams are divided into eight group of four teams.

The top two sides in each group will qualify for the main round, with pairings of two

TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recently confiscated some 350 ancient coins, which were illegally kept in a place in the central province of Markazi, the provincial tourism chief has said.

The coins, which are made of silver, are estimated to date from the Sassanid era (224 CE–651), Mostafa Marzban explained on Wednesday.

The historical coins have

Today's Persian poetry is undergoing a literary return to the past at the dawn of the twenty-first century. This means that after a century, today's poets, particularly those who have dipped into the field of classical poetry, tend to return to Persian poetry's old literary traditions.

Seyyed Majid Bagheri is a 43-year-old poet whose poetry is

TEHRAN – A team of archaeologists and cultural heritage experts have commenced a project to study and document the historical relics discovered in Siraf, southwestern Bushehr province.

All historical pottery pieces, as well as stone utensils and glass and gypsum relics, are being organized, studied, and documented, CHTN quoted Mehdi Azarian, the