Among the objects excavated in 1978 at site of Tillya Tepe (Northern Afghanistan) by Soviet-Afghan archaeological expedition led Victor I. Sarianidi, twin golden clasps from Burial III attract special and instant attention any military historian or a researcher ancient arms armour. The identity personage(-s) on has quite rarely been studied. Scholars are usually satisfied with generic term “war...

to determine ancient seed species, 3250-3450 year-old charred seeds obtained from different iranian archaeological sites were studied using scanning electron microscopy (sem) and molecular analysis. sem analysis of ancient seeds revealed that the surface of the seeds was damaged. therefore, we could not accurately identify their species. molecular analysis on ancient specimens was done on diffe...

shahdad and yahya which are two important prehistoric sites in the kerman province, are of most important forarchaeometallurgical studies. during excavations at these sites a number of metal objects have been discovered.moreover, evidence of metal working on the surface testify to manifacturing of metal objects. this also shows that thesite might have experienced craft specialization.the follow...