17 objects kept in Fars province granted national status 

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts announced the inscriptions on Monday in separate letters to the governor-general of
to the prestigious list.The ancient region of Fars, also spelled Pars or Persis, was the heart of the Achaemenian Empire (c
Darius I the Great moved the capital to nearby Persepolis in the late 6th or early 5th century BC.The capital city of Shiraz is home to some
Increasingly, it draws more and more foreign and domestic sightseers flocking to this provincial capital which was the literary capital of