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Burnt City’s "Building One", Could be the Lost Temple: Sajjadi
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13 November 2006 |
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LONDON, (CAIS) -- A team of archaeologists has returned to the Burnt City (Shahr-e Sūkhtә) to search for a temple at the site’s Building One, where some evidence had been discovered during the nine previous seasons of excavations indicating that the building may have been a temple.
The
theory is most probably correct, Sajjadi said.
“There
is a high probability – we are almost certain -– that the building is a
5000-year-old temple. However, to prove the hypothesis in the world of
archaeology, we need to search for further evidence,” he added.
Building
One has been constructed in terraced form on a mound.
The
Burnt City is located 57 kilometers from the city of Zabol in Iran’s Sistan va
Baluchestan Province and covers an area of 150 hectares. It was one of the
world’s largest cities at the dawn of the urban era. It was built circa 3200
BCE and destroyed some time around 2100 BCE. The city had four stages of
civilization and was burnt down three times. Since it was not rebuilt after the
last time it was burnt down, it has been named the Burnt City.
The
site was excavated by Italian archaeologists for the first time before the
victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. After a long hiatus, the excavations
were resumed in 1996 by a team led by Sajjadi, who then invited a group of
Italian archaeobotanists to work on the site.
The
Italian group also discovered several brown, beige, and maroon pieces of textile
during the latest phase of excavations.
Archaeologists
have discovered many artifacts including a 10-centimeter ruler with an accuracy
of half a millimeter in the ruins of the ancient city. They have also unearthed
an earthenware bowl at the Burnt City which bears images of what experts believe
is the world’s oldest “animated” picture drawn around it.
Although
many studies have been carried out on the Burnt City, so far experts have not
been able to determine the ethnicity and language of the city’s inhabitants.
The
results of all ten seasons of Burnt City excavations will be published after the
tenth phase is completed.
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