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Submitted by DrewParsons on Thursday, 01 May 2014  Page Views: 2395

MuseumsSite Name: Kashan National Museum Alternative Name: Fin Gardens Museum
Country: Iran
NOTE: This site is 78.694 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Kashan
Latitude: 33.946650N  Longitude: 51.371940E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Kashan National Museum
Kashan National Museum submitted by DrewParsons : Kashan National Museum (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Kashan, Iran

The Kashan National Museum is located in the Fin Persian Gardens at the western end of Kashan City in Iran. It contains an excellent display of objects from the nearby ancient ziggurat Tepe Sialk and from other locations around Iran including Lorestan and Susa. Access the museum is through the Fin Gardens which in themselves are worth a visit as they are a prime example of a traditional Persian Garden.
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Kashan National Museum
Kashan National Museum submitted by DrewParsons : Kashan National Museum. Lorestan Bronze Daggers. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kashan National Museum
Kashan National Museum submitted by DrewParsons : Kashan National Museum. Ist millennium BC Ceramic vessel from Tepe Sialk. April 2014 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kashan National Museum
Kashan National Museum submitted by DrewParsons : Kashan National Museum. Another 2nd Millennium BC Ceramic vessel from Tepe Sialk. April 2014 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kashan National Museum
Kashan National Museum submitted by DrewParsons : Kashan National Museum. 2nd Millennium BC Ceramic vessel from Tepe Sialk. April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kashan National Museum
Kashan National Museum submitted by DrewParsons : Kashan National Museum. Statue of Ishtar labelled as from Shosh (which I suspect should read Shush (Susa). April 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Kashan National Museum
Kashan National Museum submitted by DrewParsons : Kashan National Museum. Necklace 1st millennium BC from Susa. April 2014

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Deciphering Iran’s ancient rock art by Andy B on Friday, 27 January 2017
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An Iranian archaeologist has spent years in an almost single-handed quest across the country’s hills and desert plains to uncover ancient rock art that could be among the oldest in the world.

Now he hopes that renewed ties with the West after years of international isolation could help decipher its mysteries.

Despite its rough beauty, it is hard to imagine that the desolate, rock-strewn landscape outside the town of Khomein in central Iran conceals any treasures. But Dr. Mohammed Naserifard scrambles up a hillside, and waits eagerly at the top, his walking stick pointing out the long curled horns of a 4,000-year-old ibex deer scratched into a flat stone.

Over the next few hours, he leads on a journey through valleys and up steep slopes, revealing dozens more images of ancient hunters, tribal dances, deities and beasts.

Despite their potential world-historical importance, they have been seen by just a handful of people.

All are thousands of years old, but some of the markings, such as a line of cup marks that may have been used in religious ceremonies, could be much older.

Dutch enthusiasts who visited the area with Naserifard in 2008 dated the cup marks to more than 40,000 years ago, putting them among the oldest rock art on the planet. But getting definitive data has been all but impossible for Iranian archaeologists.

“Sanctions have deprived us of the technology,” Naserifard said. “We hope with the situation improving now, we can soon bring this technology to Iran and gain more accurate and scientific information on these engravings.”

The sanctions imposed by world powers prior to last year’s nuclear deal meant Iranian scientists were cut off from their global colleagues, deprived of modern lab equipment and the latest research and faced severe funding shortages.

Added to that was the fact that rock art has never been a priority in Iran, where pre-Islamic history can be a controversial subject.

It has been left instead to Naserifard’s personal determination.

Having read about the subject in a German magazine, he hunted everywhere for examples. Then one day in 2002, in the hills outside Khomein, he got lucky.

“We were on a picnic and all my friends were taking an afternoon nap. I went wandering and observing the rocks in the valley and I found a rock full of shapes,” he said. “I was so excited! Finding these works was like finding a treasure.”

He estimates he has since traveled more than 700,000 kilometers across two dozen Iranian provinces, unearthing some 50,000 ancient paintings and engravings.

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