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<< News >> 5000-year-old brick platform unearthed in central Iran

Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 22 May 2007  Page Views: 2713

DiscoveriesCountry: Iran A 5000-year-old brick platform has been discovered at the Qoli Darvish Tepe near Qom, central Iran, the Persian service of CHN reported on Tuesday.

“The platform was discovered during the fourth phase of excavations at Qoli Darvish and will complete the archaeological information about the site. However, some parts of the platform and a structure built on it have been destroyed by loaders,” archaeological team director Siamak Sarlak said.

The Qoli Darvish Tepe once covered 50 hectares and was 30 meters in height, but now it is just 6 meters in height and only 10 hectares of the site remain untouched due to construction of the Qom-Jamkaran Highway over the past decade.

“The platform is similar to examples in Mesopotamia. Following an ancient technique, a place had been dug out and filled with gravel and the platform had been constructed on the foundation and then a structure had been built on it,” Sarlak explained.

“Some parts of the structure are still left, and the team discovered a Bronze Age grey pot, some other dishes, chips used for counting, a round multicolor pendant, and some polychrome pottery works in the ruins of the walls,” he added.

In March, the team unearthed a hearth at a temple discovered during a previous phase of excavations.

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Over 500 ancient artifacts unearthed in northeastern Iran by coldrum on Sunday, 23 October 2011
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Over 500 ancient artifacts unearthed in northeastern Iran

Over 500 ancient metal artifacts have recently been discovered during an archaeological excavation on the Bazgir Tepe in Gorgan Province in northeastern Iran.

The artifacts, all of which are made of copper, comprise weapons, farming tools, drug tubes and pans, which date back to about 1800 years ago, Gorgan Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department director Fereidun Fa’ali told the Persian service of IRNA reported on Saturday.

The artifacts are comparable to relics previously discovered in archaeological excavations on Gorgan’s Turang Tepe and the Teppeh Hesar of Damghan in northern Semnan Province, and several ancient sites in Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, he added.

“Ruins of a large Parthian castle built of 37x37 centimeter mud bricks, which are similar to ruins previously discovered at the Turang Tepe and the Narges Tepe, have also been unearthed in the upper stratum of the site,” Fa’ali said.

In addition, the archaeological team currently working at site has discovered a number of grey and red earthenware items that dates back to circa 300 BC based on carbon-14 dating.

In the lower stratum, they have also found a number of legged earthenware dishes of the Achaemenid era. The artifacts are similar to the pottery first unearthed at an archaeological site near the town of Aq-Qala in northern Golestan Province.

The diversity of the artifacts indicates that the region had enjoyed brisk commerce in ancient times.

Covering an area of two hectares, the Bazgir Tepe is located near the village of Bazgir, about four kilometers north of the city of Minudasht.

Photo: Members of an archaeological team excavate at the Bazgir Tepe in northeastern Iran in an undated photo. Over 500 metal artifacts have been discovered during the excavation on the ancient mound. (Photo by IRNA) http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=234298
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5000-year-old site discovered in southeastern Iran by coldrum on Thursday, 11 September 2008
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5000-year-old site discovered in southeastern Iran

A broad site dating back to the third millennium BC was discovered during the latest excavations in Bampur region in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, southeastern Iran.

“In the Bampur valley, there is an ancient site covered with sand mounds, which is as large as the Burnt City and may belong to a civilization as great as the civilization of that the city,” Mehdi Mortazavi, an archaeologist of the University of Sistan-Baluchestan, told the Persian service of CHN on Saturday.

According to Mortazavi, the site measures 1x1.5 kilometer.

“I feel sure that there are a large number of sites like this here. Such sites may even exist in nearby regions like Saravan,” he stated.

Mortazavi refused to give more details about the location of the site for security reasons.

“It’s better for the site to remain covered for the time being, because it will be plundered by illegal excavations if the precise location of the site is revealed,” he argued.

Twenty sites -- mostly prehistoric -- have been discovered by the archaeologists of the University of Sistan-Baluchestan over the past few years.

Covering an area of 152 hectares, the Burnt City, located 57 kilometers from the city of Zabol in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, is the largest prehistoric site of the province.

It was one of the world’s largest conurbations at the dawn of the urban era and was well developed during the third millennium BC. It thus constitutes one of the country’s most important prehistoric sites.

The city, which was burnt down three times, shows evidence of four stages of civilization. Since it was not rebuilt after the last conflagration, it has been named the Burnt City.

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