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Undeterred
by any police crackdown or prosecution, armed diggers and
farmers are excavating the century-old city of Gur in
search of ancient artifacts, south of Iran.
The 300-hectar city was built during the reign of Emperor
Ardeshir Babakan the founder of Sasanid dynasty, and is
one of the biggest historical sites of that period. “But
right now 280-hectar of the land is illegally cultivated
by farmers and the rest is ploughed on a daily basis by
armed artifact poachers,” said Azamollah Kazemi, head of
archeological workshops in Firoozabad, south of Kerman
province.
Gur was never subject to archeological studies and if the
digging frenzy continues, it would certainly damage
architectural structures left fro the Sasanid era, she
added.
“There are just two guards for the whole site and
naturally they cannot confront the bands. Every morning
you can see more pits dug in search of relics,” Kazemi
noted.
Iranian archeologists believe studies in Gur, 10
kilometers from Firoozabad, could shed some light on the
lifestyle of Iranians at the time of Sasanid dynasty.
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