Iran is loaded with archeological treasures.........Darius is in the Bible..............you see Haifa, Israel.........in Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears...........................

Some of the first archaeological expeditions to Iran began in the mid 19th century, when British and French archaeologists investigated the site of Susa in southwestern Iran. ... A year later, as war broke out between Iran and Iraq, archaeological fieldwork became stagnant until the early 1990s.

The Plundering of the Past: Its Affect on Iranian Archaeology ...