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Stratigraphy studies of the third
excavation season in the prehistoric site of Sialk Hills
in the central town of Kashan led to new findings about
the various residential systems in the area.
Siyalk is a unique important historical site of Iran
which includes historical relics from the fifth up to
the first millennium B.C. The oldest ziggurat of the
world, dating back to five thousand years ago, was
discovered in the area two years ago.
The discoverer of the Siyalk Ziggurat and head of the
research team Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi said that the
first round of excavations were carried out some 70
years ago by the great French archaeologist Roman
Girshman, adding that the new stratigraphy studies led
to the identification of the social, economical,
political, and governmental systems of different
historical periods.
The new excavations started in the area two years ago
giving way to important discoveries such as the oldest
ziggurat of the world with three storeys made of one
million mud-bricks, and some five hundred pieces of
copper scraps.
Experts in various areas of archaeology, botanical archaeology, zoology, anthropology, Bronze Age art,
earthenware, geophysics and surveying, including four
foreign archaeologists from the United States, Germany
and France, are taking part in the third excavation
season.
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