Special Report; Iran - Home of Civilization, Culture. From: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) | Date: February 10, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2000 Hankook Ilbo. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

To visit Iran is a unique experience, the experience of being in the cradle of a civilization and culture that has had and continues to have its impact on the world for more than 2,500 years of written history -- antiquity versus modernization.

Archaeological studies during the first half of the twentieth century indicate that as early as 10,000 BC, tribes lived on the southern shores of the Caspian, one of the few regions of the world which according to scientists esc...

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