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Another 3000-Year-Old Fireplace Discovered in Central Iran
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17 March 2007 |
LONDON, (CAIS) -- Archaeologists unearthed another 3000-year-old fireplace at the Qoli Darvish Tappeh near Qom, central Iran, the Persian service of CHN reported on Wednesday.
“The
fireplace was discovered at the temple, which was discovered during previous
phases of excavations. This is the fourth hearth discovered at the site,”
archaeological team director Siamak Sarlak said.
“The
fireplace, which is smaller than the central one, consists of a room with an
offering stand and was used to keep the other large fireplaces lit,” Sarlak
added.
The
walls of the fireplace had been covered with plaster stucco mixed with straw in
ancient times.
About
150 square meters of the 200-square-meter temple has been destroyed by
construction of the Qom-Jamkaran Highway over the past decade.
The
Qoli Darvish Tappeh once covered 50 hectares and was 30 meters in height, but
now it is just 6 meters in height and only 10 hectares of the site remain
untouched due to the highway project.
There
is evidence that Qoli Darvish was inhabited from the fourth millennium BCE to
the ninth century CE.
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