On 8th July, 2023, hundreds of people including local officials, cultural heritage experts, artists, travellers and craftsmen, attended a ceremony held in Tehran, commemorating the sixth anniversary of Yazd’s listing on the UNESCO World Heritage list. A provincial city dependent on trade, Yazd remains one of the few strongholds of the Zoroastrian faith, with Zoroastrians […]
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Archaeological Findings Could Predate Yazd History
Recent archaeological findings have shed new light on the history of Yazd, the UNESCO-registered oasis city in Central Iran, which houses a Zoroastrian population, proposing that its antiquity could be much further dated, than supposed earlier. As per a news release in Tehram Times, archaeologists believe that potteries recently excavated in Yazd, could belong to […]