Allowing the Caspian Sea to succumb to industrial exploitation and climate-induced desiccation would be an irreversible ...
Wooden posts sticking out of a sand dune in northern Iran turned out to be a century-old shipwreck. Photos show what remains ...
A detailed investigation of a wooden shipwreck discovered off the Mazandaran coast in southern Iran shed light on maritime trade in the Caspian Sea. The findings were recently detailed in a study ...
In the study, "The Shipwreck of Zaghemarz, Mazandaran, Iran: Archaeology, Archaeobotany and Absolute Dating of an Eighteenth‑Century Vessel of the Caspian Sea," published in the Journal of ...
In the first image from November 2022, the underwater mud volcano is solidly beneath sea level, with no discernable land ...
The plant remains were likely “components of the crew’s food during the final journey in the Caspian Sea,” archaeologists said. A woven mat found on the Zaghemarz shipwreck. Photo shared by ...