Seimareh Dam Reservoir Devours 100 Archaeological Sites

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LONDON, (CAIS) -- A team of archaeologists has recently identified 100 ancient sites behind the Seimareh Dam reservoir in western Iran’s Ilam Province.

The sites have been identified as belonging to a whole array of historical eras including Neolithic, Bronze Age, Copper Age, Stone Age, as well as Parthian (248 BCE-224 CE), Sasanian (224-651 CE) dynastic eras, and post-Sasanian period (651-850 CE), team director Rasul Seyyedin Borujeni told the Persian service of CHN on Tuesday.

Identification of a Parthian and Three Post-Sasanian Cities in Sistan

LONDON, (CAIS) -- Archaeological studies in Sistan-va-Baluchestan province, have led to discovery of 400 archaeological sites including an Arsacid (Parthian) and three post-Sasanian cities.

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Middle-Asia Digs Suggest a New View of the Dawn of Civilization

LONDON, (CAIS) -- For decades, school children have learned that human civilization emerged about 5000 years ago along the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia, along the Nile, and along the Indus River. But archaeologists working in a broad arc from the Russian steppes through Iran and onto the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula are finding evidence that a complex network of cities may have thrived across the region in roughly the same era, suggesting a dramatic new view of the emergence of human civilization.

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