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Legal Bill Regarding Prevention of Unauthorized Excavations and Diggings intended to obtain antiquities and historical relics...(1979) [unofficial translation]
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Legal Bill Regarding Prevention of Unauthorized Excavations and Diggings intended to obtain antiquities and historical relics which, according to international criteria, have been made or have come into being one hundred or more years ago (1979) [unofficial translation]
Legal Bill of 17 May 1979 (prevention of unauthorized excavations of antiquities and historical relics at least 100 years old) (Iran).
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