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Persepolitan-Style Column-Bases Found in Mamasani
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28 February 2007 |
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One of the discovered column bases at Sarvan site (Click to enlarge)
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LONDON, (CAIS) -- Director of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Office in Mamasani, Fars province, has said on Monday that artifacts discovered in the region date back to 550 BCE.
Habib Fahliyani told Persian service of IRNA that archaeologists from Iran and
Australia came across five columns of a monument in Sarvān Village last week,
similar to those in Persepolis.
The column-bases were discovered during excavations in an area covering 1,200 square
meters undertaken jointly by Iranian and Australian teams in 2002.
The first phase of the project is complete while the second phase will begin
once the Interior Ministry issues the permit for the excavations, he noted.
Fahliyani further said that head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and
Tourism Organization’s Research Centre had announced that Sarvan Plain is 500
times more important than Sivand dam and Bolaghi Valley and the area deserves
investment. Mamasani is 180 kilometres away from Shiraz.
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The British Institute of Persian Studies "Persepolis Reconstructed"
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