US returns to Iran latest batch of ancient clay tablets / Photo: ATTA KENARE - AFP/File
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US returns to Iran latest batch of ancient clay tablets
The United States has returned to Iran more than 1,000 clay tablets dating from the Achaemenid-era, official media said, reporting the sixth such handover of its kind.
Iran's official IRNA news agency said Thursday evening that the tablets, 1,100 in all, were returned with President Masoud Pezeshkian who had attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Found at the ruins of Persepolis, the capital of the Persian Achaemenid Empire which ruled from the 6th to 4th centuries BC in southern Iran, the repatriated tablets reflect how the ancient society was organised and its economy managed.
The tablets constitute records of "the rituals and the way of life of our ancestors", said Ali Darabi, vice-minister of cultural heritage, cited by IRNA.
The tablets were returned to Iran by the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa, formerly known as the Oriental Institute.
A large portion of the tablets were returned in three batches between 1948 and 2004 before the rest were blocked by legal action until 2018.
More than 3,500 tablets were repatriated in September, 2023.
"The American side undertook to return the rest," Darabi said, cited by Iran's ISNA news agency.
Th.Gonzalez--AT