For You Lot Data - Iran’S 'City Of The Mouthless' To Choke To A Greater Extent Than Attention

Shahr-e Yeri, a unique archaeological site inwards northwest Iran, is laid upward to hold upward turned into a "national heritage base", a condition that may convey to a greater extent than attending to the ancient metropolis sometimes referred to every bit the “city of the mouthless”.

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Situated nigh Pirazman hamlet of Meshkin Shahr, inwards Ardabil province, Shahr-e Yeri is ane of the earliest settlements inwards the Islamic Republic of Iran in addition to is estimated to hold upward to a greater extent than than 6,000 years old.

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“The determination of establishing a national heritage base of operations inwards Shahr-e Yeri was made later it faced many problems in addition to followed warnings nearly the inappropriate nation of the historical site,” ISNA reported.

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Shahr-e Yeri embraces an Iron-Age fortress, 3 prehistoric temples in addition to 280 carved stones on which mouthless faces are depicted, all stretched across 400 hectares of several small-scale hills.

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It is idea these stones were used every bit totems, worshipped yesteryear the inhabitants of Shahr’e Yeri earlier the collapse of the metropolis later it cruel to the Urartians.

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The dead were buries inwards megalithic tombs, the bulk of which were found empty due to illegal excavations.

Shahr-e Yeri was inscribed on the listing of National Heritage Sites inwards 1931.

Source: Tehran Times [August 09, 2018]


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