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be held on Saturday.Janoscha Kreppner, a professor of Middle Eastern archaeology at the University of Munster, Germany, along with Iranian
scholars Mehrdad Malekzadeh, Yusef Hassanzadeh, and Kamyar Abdi, are scheduled to give speeches during the event.Mannaea civilization
flourished in northwestern Iran in the 1st millennium BC
Mannaea, also spelled Mannae or Manna, was an ancient country surrounded by three major powers of the time, namely Assyria, Urartu, and
Media.According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Mannaeans are first recorded in the annals of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (reigned
With the intrusion of the Scythians and the rise of the Medes in the 7th century, the Manneans lost their identity and were subsumed under
the term Medes.The first well-documented evidence of human habitation in the Iranian plateau was found from several excavated cave and
rock-shelter sites, located mainly in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran and dated to Middle Paleolithic or Mousterian times (c
100,000 BC).From the Caspian in the northwest to Baluchistan in the southeast, the Iranian plateau extends for close to 2,000 km
The land encompasses the greater part of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan west of the Indus River, containing some 3,700,000 square
