Team
director Mohammadreza Khalatbari said that excavation work
is continuing to unearth the whole wall.
“The
archaeologists surmise that the architecture of the wall
dates back to the Parthian era. Studies of shards
discovered earlier prove that the site was inhabited until
the Parthian era but was abandoned afterwards,” he
noted.
The
team previously unearthed 3000-year-old shards at the site
and hope that they can also discover more ruins in order
to shed light on the architectural style of the site.
The
gray earthenware discovered in the lower strata of the
hill dates back to the first millennium BC, indicating
that the hill was a residential area during the Iron Age,
he said.
But
no signs of architecture related to the Iron Age have been
found, he added, saying that more research must be carried
out to discover the architecture of the residential area.
Animal
fossils have also been discovered at the site. Over 44
archaeological and historical sites from the first
millennium BC have been discovered and identified in the
Rustamabad region of northern Iran.
