TEHRAN –Handicrafts businesses across the central province of Markazi received financial support in the previous Iranian calendar year 1400 (ended on March 20), the provincial tourism chief has said. 

Over 57 billion rials ($190,000) in loans were paid to some 278 handicraft artisans of the province during the mentioned time, Mostafa Marzban

TEHRAN – A team of archaeologists has unearthed further evidence that Paleolithic people lived in Sarbisheh Plain, eastern Iran.

The team has found, in the first step, that some objects, previously discovered at Kalateh Mohammad Laleh in Sarbisheh plain, have links to human presence in the Paleolithic era, CHTN reported on Thursday.

Furthermore, the

TEHRAN – The eighth round of a restoration project will commence on the Sassanid-era Barim arch bridge in the southwestern Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, a local tourism official has said. 

A budget of two billion rials ($6,700) has been allocated to the project, Sadeq Mandanizadeh explained on Friday. 

The project aims at preserving the

TEHRAN – Iran and China consider plans to hold joint exhibitions of their historical relics.

The National Museum of Iran is set to hold an exhibition of ancient cultural heritage in Beijing, ISNA quoted the museum director Jebrael Nokandeh as saying on Friday.

“We have entered negotiations with a number of Chinees museums, however, the host museum h