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DigsSite Name: Jiroft Ancient Site Alternative Name: Qal’eh KuchakCountry: Iran
NOTE: This site is 56.713 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Latitude: 28.670000N Longitude: 57.740000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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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.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Location given is very approximate, we would appreciate a more accurate long / lat location for this site
Note: Jiroft is the ancient city of Marhashi suggests U.S. scholar, see latest comment
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