TEHRAN – A total of five historical buildings and aging structures, scattered across the Iranian capital, have recently been inscribed on the national heritage list.

The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts announced the inscriptions on Tuesday in separate letters to the governor-general of the province, CHTN reported.

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TEHRAN – On Monday, the National Museum of Iran held a special festival to mark an ancient customary headscarf, which was popular during the Achaemenid era (c. 550 – 330 BC). 

The festival aimed at promoting and introducing the indigenous handicrafts fields and traditional arts especially the tradition of sporting a customary headscarf called

TEHRAN – A team of archaeologists has commenced a mapping project to redraw the boundaries of ancient Sirjan, which has long been a hub for hand-woven kilim carpets. 

Kerman province occupies a large portion of the southern half of Iran, and yet even though it has some interesting archaeological finds from different periods of Iranian history, this

TEHRAN – In an innovative initiative to promote tourism, tens of craftspeople have held a sales exhibition at a centuries-old fortress in Iranshahr, southeast Iran. 

“Collections of handicrafts and traditional arts, made by the native craftspeople of Iranshahr, were put on show at the southeastern city,” Iranshahr’s tourism chief said on Tuesday.  

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