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DigsSite Name: Jiroft Ancient Site Alternative Name: Qal’eh Kuchak
Country: Iran
NOTE: This site is 211.331 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 28.670000N  Longitude: 57.740000E
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Ancient Site in Iran. Located next to the Halil-Rud River in the southern province of Kerman, Jiroft came into the spotlight nearly five years ago when reports of extensive illegal excavations and plundering of the priceless historical items of the area by local people surfaced.

Since 2002, four excavation seasons have been carried out at the Jiroft site under the supervision of Majidzadeh, leading to the discovery of a ziggurat made of more than four million mud bricks dating back to about 2200 BC.

Many ancient ruins and interesting artifacts have been excavated by archaeologists at the Jiroft ancient site, which is known as the "archeologists’ lost heaven".

After the numerous unique discoveries in the region, Majidzadeh declared Jiroft to be the cradle of art. Many scholars questioned the theory due to the fact that no writings or architectural structures had yet been discovered at the site, but shortly afterwards his team discovered inscriptions at Konar Sandal Ziggurat, which caused experts to reconsider their views on the site.

The Konar Sandal inscriptions are older than the Inshushinak inscription, thus it seems that the recently discovered inscriptions link Proto Elamite (first appeared in about 2900 BC in Susa) and Old Elamite (used between about 2250 and 2220 BC) scripts.

Many Iranian and foreign experts see the findings in Jiroft as signs of a civilization as great as Sumer and ancient Mesopotamia. Majidzadeh believes that Jiroft is the ancient city of Aratta, which was described as a great civilization in a Sumerian clay inscription.

A group of international archaeologists is scheduled to gather in Tehran in January 2007 to discuss the latest discoveries in the region at a seminar being sponsored by the CHTO.

Source: CHN.

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Note: Jiroft is the ancient city of Marhashi suggests U.S. scholar, see latest comment
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Jiroft is the ancient city of Marhashi suggests U.S. scholar by Andy B on Friday, 16 May 2008
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Piotr Steinkeller, professor of Assyriology in Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University, believes that the prehistoric site of Jiroft is the lost ancient city of Marhashi.

He developed the theory in his paper during the first round of the International Conference on Jiroft Civilization, which was held in Tehran on May 5 and 6.

Marhashi, (in earlier sources Warahshe) was a 3rd millennium BC polity situated east of Elam, on the Iranian plateau. It is known from Mesopotamian sources, and its precise location has not been identified. An inscription of Lugal-Anne-Mundu, the most important king of the Adab city-state in Sumer, locates it, along with Elam, to the south of Gutium, an ancient polity in upper Mesopotamia. The inscription also explains that Lugal-Anne-Mundu confronted the Warahshe king, Migir-Enlil.

Jiroft is the lost ancient city of Marhashi, which had been located between Anshan and Meluhha, Steinkeller said.

Anshan was one of the early capitals of Elam, from the 3rd millennium BC, which is located 36 kilometers northwest of modern Shiraz in Fars Province, southwestern Iran.

The Indus Valley Civilization has been tentatively identified with the toponym Meluhha known from Sumerian records.

According to Steinkeller, Marhashi was a political and economic power in eastern Iran, which had been in a close contact with Babylonia. This relationship had been developed over two periods, which has influenced the political history of the region for at least a half century.

Steinkeller had previously been searching the Kerman region in order to identify a site from the 3rd millennium BC, which he could consider it as Marhashi. He had found Tepe Yahya and Tall-e Eblis, but he believes that Tepe Yahya is too small to be considered as Marhashi and Tall-e Eblis has been has almost entirely been destroyed over the years.

Thus, he said that Jiroft is the heart of the ancient city of Marhashi and hoped that upcoming excavations and studies would help archaeologists discover other parts of the city.

According to the conference scientific secretary Professor Yusef Majidzadeh, over 700 ancient sites such as tepes and graves have been discovered in Jiroft over the past six seasons of excavation by a team of archaeologists led by Majidzadeh.

Located next to the Halil-Rud River in southern Iran’s Kerman Province, Jiroft came into the spotlight in 2002 when reports surfaced of extensive illegal excavations being carried out by local people who went on to plunder priceless historical items.

Majidzadeh team unearthed a great number of artifacts at Jiroft as well as three tablets in one of the present-day villager’s homes and a brick inscription near Jiroft’s Konar-Sandal region wherein they also discovered ruins of a large fortress, which previously was believed to be a ziggurat. The structure is surmised have been made of more than four million mud bricks.

The pottery works and the shards discovered in the Konar-Sandal fortress date back to an interval between the fourth millennium BC and early years of the Islamic period, Majidzadeh said during the conference.

Once, Majidzadeh had said that Jiroft is the ancient city of Aratta, which was described in a Sumerian clay inscription as an impressive center of civilization. In December 2007, he suggested that archaeologists use the term Proto-Iranian instead of Proto-Elamite for the script found at Jiroft.

He believes that the world should revise its knowledge of the Eastern civilizations due to the inscriptions discovered at Jiroft.

Majidzadeh describes the inscriptions as unique and also elaborates that the tablets and the brick inscription bearing a script which has been invented along with the Mesopotamia script at the same time.

A great number of Iranian and foreign archaeologists and scholars discussed the lates

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Ancient stone tablets identified in Jiroft by coldrum on Tuesday, 22 May 2007
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The fifth season of excavations of archeological mounds of Konar-Sandal around Jiroft in the Kerman Province has led to the discovery of two more stone inscriptions dating back to the first half of the third millennium B.C.

Three other stone tablets have previously been discovered on the 5,000 year old site.

Professor Piotr Steinkeller of Harvard University in his recent essay on the discovery in the area has called it "Eastern Script", as distinct from Elamite.

The Konar-Sandal archaeological excavation team, consisting of Iranian and foreign experts as well as the head of the team Yusef Majidzadeh, have given the name "Royal" to the newly identified inscriptions.

However some specialists say, since the scripts have not been decoded yet, such a theory is not acceptable.

Inscriptions found earlier in Konar-Sandal's ziggurat suggest Jiroft was the origin of Elamite written language which then spread across the country and reached Susa.

Jiroft is located close to the Halil Rud historical site which, according to abundant evidence, was one of the first places where civilization was established.

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Ancient rock tombs discovered at Jiroft by Andy B on Tuesday, 28 November 2006
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Two tombs carved out of rock were recently discovered at the Qal’eh Kuchak mound by the team of archaeologists working at the Jiroft ancient site.

The team began the fifth phase of excavations of Jiroft, which is located in the Halil-Rud River cultural area, in late October.

Due to their magnificent structure, the archaeologists believe they may be the tombs of kings who ruled the region.

“The ancient inhabitants of the region constructed a place like an orthogonal room measuring 2.5x2.5 meters. The place has some stairs leading to two cave-like tombs,” team director Yusef Majidzadeh told the Persian service of CHN on Saturday.

“Carving such tombs in the heart of rock is a difficult task. Thus, we believe they may be the tombs of kings who ruled the region. The tombs have very remarkable and beautiful architecture and require a comprehensive study,” he added.

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Excavations in Iran reveal heavy population in 3000BC by Andy B on Tuesday, 28 November 2006
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Archeological excavations in the historical sites of Jiroft in the central province of Kerman have indicated that the area faced over population some 5000 years ago.Seven residential areas have been discovered during the second week of the third season of excavation in Jiroft, which is an indication of the large population of the area 5000 years ago.

So far 100 historical sites have been unearthed by the Halilrood River in Jiroft, Kerman, with stone and clay items and architectural remains dating to the third millennium BC, being proof of a rich civilization as vast as the Sumerian one of Mesopotamia.

The joint team of Iranian, French and American archeologists has found seven residential areas, all made of clay, near the governmental structure of the ancient site, head of the team, Yusef Majidzadeh told CHN.

Everywhere in the historical areas where the archeologists dug, remains of residential areas were found, which according to Majidzadeh, are evidence of the large population of the area some 5000 years ago.

During the two previous seasons of work, architectural remains, the most important of which are a great governmental structure and a 4300 year-old Ziggurat, were discovered. Archeologists also found some carved stones which they believe can lead them to the discovery of stone workshops.

Source: Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency (CHN)
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