Tehran Times - Irans Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism has extended permit for exploration at the Kaldar Cave, which has previously yielded a fragment of a fossilized skull along with some stone tools attributed to Homo sapiens. Situated in western Lorestan province, Kaldar is a key archaeological site that provides evidence of ...

The reasons which contributed to the mystery extinction of Neanderthals are highly likely to be unraveled during the excavations across different sites in Khorramabad Valley. Archeological excavations in Kaldar Cave in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province, have produced evidence of early modern humans, good at making tools, living in this region. The ...