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<< News >> Iranian palace of Bisotoun excavated

Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 25 July 2007  Page Views: 4703

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Archeological excavations at the Sassanid palace of Bisotoun in the western province of Kermanshah have started again.

"The first stage of archeological excavations in the Sassanid palace was left unfinished in the year 2005," announced the Director of Bisotoun Cultural Heritage Center.

"Along with efforts made by the center, the official warrant for an archeological operation has been issued by the Archeology Research Center," Davood Daneshian added.

"The excavations will last for two months", he added.

Press TV.
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Archaeologists Excavating Bistun's Khosrow Palace by coldrum on Monday, 04 January 2010
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Archaeologists Excavating Bistun's Khosrow Palace

A team of Iranian archaeologists has recently begun the sixth season of archaeological research at the palace of the Sasanian emperor Khosrow II, Parviz (r. 590–628 CE) in the Bistun region of Kermanshah Province.

The palace is located near Farhad Tarash, also known as Faratash, a cliff at the foot of the Zagros Mountains whose vertical surface was smoothed during the Achaemenid dynastic period (550-330 BCE).

The construction of the palace was never completed but the site was converted into a caravanserai by the Ilkhanids (1256–1353).

Ruins dating back to the Sasanian dynasty and the Ilkhanid era have been unearthed this season, team director Mehdi Rahbar told the Persian service of CHN on Monday. Some of the stones used in constructing the palace walls still bear intact masons’ marks, he stated.

“The Ilkhanids converted the unfinished palace into a caravanserai, which most likely was destroyed by an earthquake later on and then another caravanserai was built by the Safavid dynasty (1502–1736) at distance of 200 meters from the Ilkhanid structure,” Rahbar explained.

People built their houses on the ruins of the palace of Khosrow Parviz during the last years of the Qajar period (1794-1925). In 1976 during the reign of Pahlavi II, the people were relocated in order to enable archaeologists to study the palace ruins.

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Paikuli inscriptions studied, restored in Iraq by coldrum on Wednesday, 01 July 2009
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Archeologists have studied and restored the Sassanid inscriptions found on Paikuli Tower, located in the Iraqi Kurdistan.

“The Paikuli inscriptions are in Parthian, Pahlavi and Middle Persian languages,” president of the Societas Iranologica Europaea and head of the archeology team Carlo Cereti told CHTN.

“The inscriptions belong to the Sassanid King Narseh and are similar to the ones at the Cube of Zoroaster that bears Middle Persian, Greek and Parthian texts,” he added.

The Cube of Zoroaster is an Achaemenid tower-like construction at Naqsh-e Rustam archaeological site northwest of Persepolis in Fars Province, Iran.

Cereti also said that some petroglyphs were smuggled during the war and some of them have been transferred to a museum in Iraq.

According to Cereti, this is the first time the site has been studied after initial studies conducted by German archeologist Ernst Herzfeld in 1913.

The Paikuli monument, locally called 'idol house', is on the Iraqi side of the border with Iran on a north-south line drawn from Sulaimaniyah in Iraq to Qasr-e-Sirin in Iran on the ancient road from Ctesiphon to Azerbaijan.

In the 19th century, it consisted of the ruins of a large, square tower that had originally been covered on all sides by stone blocks, some of which contained inscriptions, but, at the time, lay scattered all around the monument.

Herzfeld reconstructed the monument as a tall, square box with a slightly wider base and the inscriptions placed up on opposite sides.

He found that the Paikuli inscription commemorates the war between the Sassanid king Narseh and Warahran III.

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