TEHRAN – Mostafa Dehpahlavan, head of the Analysis Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, has emphasised the significance of archaeological excavations on the Bronze Age website of Konar Sandal in southern Iran’s Jiroft area.
Talking throughout a go to to the positioning on Monday, Dehpahlavan underscored the necessity for steady analysis and preservation efforts at this globally famend heritage location.
After a 16-year hiatus, excavations at Konar Sandal resumed beneath the management of famend archaeologist Seyyed Mansour Seyyed Sajjadi, because of persistent efforts by the Kerman province’s cultural heritage division.
He additionally identified that artifacts from Jiroft are featured in distinguished museums worldwide, underscoring the positioning’s world significance.
Dehpahlavan praised these initiatives, stating that Konar Sandal holds immense cultural and historic worth not only for Iran but in addition for the worldwide group.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Dehpahlavan highlighted the vital function of the Jiroft website in shaping Iran’s historic narrative, emphasizing the advantages it may convey to native communities.
The cultural heritage of Jiroft is so profound that it may considerably profit native and indigenous populations, he stated, urging the inclusion of native communities and NGOs within the preservation and administration of the positioning.
Heritage as gentle energy
Dehpahlavan referred to cultural heritage as a cornerstone of nationwide id and affect, describing it as a type of “gentle energy” that bolsters each home stability and worldwide diplomacy. He harassed the significance of archaeological analysis in enhancing societal consciousness and fostering satisfaction in Iran’s wealthy historic legacy.
“Websites like Konar Sandal not solely deepen our understanding of the previous but in addition contribute to our cultural and historic literacy,” he stated. “Preserving and using this heritage ensures its transmission to future generations whereas enhancing the nation’s world standing.”
Glimpses of the Bronze Age website
The treasured website consists of two mounds a number of kilometers aside, referred to as Konar Sandal A and B with a top of 13 and 21 meters, respectively. At Konar Sandal B, a two-story, windowed citadel with a base of near 13.5 hectares was discovered. Tablets with scripts of unknown nature have been reportedly found on the website.
An preliminary archaeological dig on the website occurred about twenty years in the past, led by Iranian archaeologist Yousef Majidzadeh and a workforce of worldwide consultants. This survey uncovered a Bronze Age settlement nestled within the Halil-Rud Valley.
Nestled amongst mountains rising round 4,000 meters excessive on three sides, Jiroft’s discoveries are considered by many Iranian and worldwide consultants as proof of a civilization as important as Sumer and historic Mesopotamia.The exceptional Jiroft website’s discovery was unintentional within the early twenty first century when extreme floods alongside the Halil River unearthed quite a few beforehand unknown tombs, revealing artifacts believed thus far again to the Early Bronze Age (late third millennium BC).
Experiences initially described the sight of “an historic object floating on the water’s floor.” Recognizing its worth, villagers, impacted by two years of drought, swarmed the riverbanks the next day, trying to find 5,000-year-old relics.
Regardless of its historic significance, geological components led to the positioning’s oversight by vacationers and archaeologists, who have been sometimes extra targeted on areas like Mesopotamia, located roughly 1,000 km away.
In 2003, Iran invited Jean Perrot, the famend French archaeologist who directed excavations within the Shush (or Susa) space from 1969 to 1978 as head of the French Nationwide Centre for Scientific Analysis.
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