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Iran: 22 Post Sassanid cemeteries
discovered in Kurdistan province
4.8.2006
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Studies and identifications in
the historic areas of Marivan in Kurdistan resulted
in discovery of 22 graveyards in this province which
are dated to the Islamic era.
Marivan, Kurdistan-Iran , -- 22 cemeteries,
11 historic hills, 3 archeological regions, and a
number of clay dishes all dating back to the post
Sassanid era were found by experts and archeologists
in the Kurdish city of Marivan, Iranian western
province of Kurdistan (Eastern big Kurdistan).
In addition, a historic fortress which was being
used during the different periods that followed the
Arabs' invasion of the Persian Empire and Kurdish
region of Iran the beginning of the Islamic era in
651 AD as well as a pre-historic graveyard were
discovered in a nearby village. |
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"This cemetery was discovered in the slopes of the
dunes located in the southern parts of a river.
This cemetery belongs to the Iron Age, first
millennium BC.
The gravestones are different in size and the
biggest one is 220 by 30 by 10 cubic centimeters in
dimension, comparable to those found in northern
Iran," said Ebrahim Zarei, director of the Cultural
Heritage and Tourism Department of Kurdistan
province.
Experts are now busy verifying the exact age of the
discovered historic evidence and are studying the
clay artifacts found in the surface layers.
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