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<< Our Photo Pages >> Chogha Mish - Ancient Village or Settlement in Iran

Submitted by DrewParsons on Tuesday, 29 April 2014  Page Views: 3604

Multi-periodSite Name: Chogha Mish
Country: Iran
NOTE: This site is 134.782 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Dezful  Nearest Village: Chogha Mish
Latitude: 32.225640N  Longitude: 48.555940E
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.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
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
0no data
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Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : The tepe seen from the nearest I got to it on my first attempt to reach it - a 2 metre drainage ditch interposed between me and the site. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Khuzistan, Iran.

Chogha Mish is a tepe or tell located on the plains of Khuzistan Province in Iran. The tepe was excavated during the 1960s with finds including early accounting tokens, cuneiform tablets and pottery portraying musicians. The earliest date for settlement is thought to be 7000 BC . Fire damaged the site around 4500 BC. A proto Elamite aspect to the site is dated to 3000 BC. The site is located north of Chogha Zanbil and south of the Dezful to Shushtar road near the modern day village of Chogha Mish. To reach it drive north from the modern village until you see the immense tepe in the fields to the right (east) of the road. From there follow mud tracks towards it then cross the open grasslands to reach the hill. The site excavations have created pits in the summit but the ground is littered with pot sherds from ancient times. The photograph opposite shows the tepe seen from the nearest I got to it on my first attempt to reach it - a 2 metre drainage ditch interposed between me and the site. This is one of my favourite sites. After studying tells at university in a early civilisations paper it was a thrill to finally stand on one of the most important ones.
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Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : Pot sherds litter the ground at the tepe. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : Goats browsing on the tepe. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : View across the tepe or tell. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : Excavations on the tepe. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : A pot part buried in the ground on the tepe. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : The tepe. April 2014.

Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : The whole of the surface of the tepe is covered with pot sherds from millennia ago. April 2014.

Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : The tepe. April 2014

Chogha Mish
Chogha Mish submitted by DrewParsons : Approaching the tepe from the south west. April 2014.

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