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The skeleton of a 5000-year-old child wrapped in a winding sheet was
discovered at the foot of a wall in the Taleb Khan Mound, which is
located near the Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchestan Province (Iran).
"The skeleton was discovered in a room of a house, while
remnants of a white cloth were found around it. The cloth shows that
the child had been shrouded before burial," Mehdi Miri, the director
of the archaeological team working at the site, said. "It was common
for children to be buried at home in prehistoric times, but what
astounds the archaeologists is that the Taleb Khan Mound is located a
short distance from the Burnt City and was one of the city's
satellite villages, but the Burnt City has a cemetery separate from
the urban area while the Taleb Khan site has burials in its
residential area," he explained. The skeleton of the child has been
sent to the Burnt City Research Center and a team of experts is
carrying out botanical studies on pieces of the cloth at Zabol
University.
mehrnews.ir.
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