Sonic

Guest you are so funny... The oldest country in the world and they have been oppressed by a religious extremist cult for the last forty years. Let's forget all their contribution to humanity. Grow up

I think what guest meant was that this didn't happen in Iran. It happened in Elam. Iran is a modern name for a modern country. The person who carved this was not Iranian. I think guest has a valid point- I mean you wouldn't say that events in pre-Columbus Native American history happened in the USA.

The point is Iran and US are not the same. Persia was changed to Iran to denote a wider variety of people who have lived for millenia in the area. Aryan, Ireland, Iran are from the same root. The elamite people were Iranian and not Persian. Elamite people are Kurds who are living in the area at the moment

I meant that in the year 1500 BC, the polity that this person belonged to was Elam (not modern ethnicity Elamite). Elam was the name of the name of the area before its Persian conquest. This artifact is Elamite, not Persian, not Iranian. Just as an old Navajo artifact isn't a piece of US history.