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<< Text Pages >> Chehr-Abad Salt Mine - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Iran

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Multi-periodSite Name: Chehr-Abad Salt Mine Alternative Name: Chehr-Ābād Salt Mine Chehr Abad Chehrabad Salt Man
Country: Iran
NOTE: This site is 76.257 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Zanjan City
Latitude: 36.774723N  Longitude: 48.359165E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Zanjan province, Iran

Six mummified salt men dating back to Achaemenid (550-330 BC) and Sassanian (224-651 AD) dynastic eras have been unearthed so far in the Chehr Abad historic salt mine.

The first discovery of salt men and their belongings in Chehr Abad mine of Zanjan province was made accidentally by the miners in 1993. They are among rare mummies discovered around the world that are mummified as a result of natural conditions.

What has made these discovered salt men distinguished in the world is that most parts of them have remained almost intact due to have been buried in salt for centuries. Samples of these salt men were sent to Oxford and Cambridge universities to implement genetics studies and DNA analysis.

For more on the Salt Men see our other reports here.

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