TEHRAN - An Iranian woman has recently contributed millennia-year-old clay containers to a cultural heritage museum in Mashhad, located northeast of the country.Marzieh Ebrahimpur, who is a cultural heritage enthusiast, has donated 2 earthen jars to the Great Museum of Khorasan, IRNA priced estimate the museums director as stating on Tuesday.Estimated to go back to the Iron Age, the clay containers are of significant historic worth, Ali Safarnejad said.Donating historical works is among the excellent traditions that improve the museum and offer the needed grounds for keeping these historical works in proper conditions, the main stated.Iron Age is the final technological and cultural phase in the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age sequence.

The date of the full Iron Age, in which this metal, for the a lot of part, replaced bronze in carries out and weapons, varied geographically, beginning in the Middle East and southeastern Europe about 1200 BC however in China not till about 600 BC, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.In Iran, the term Iron Age is used to determine a cultural change that took place centuries earlier than the time accorded its usage somewhere else in the Near East, and not to acknowledge the intro of new metal technology.As discussed by Encyclopedia Iranica, Iron artifacts were unidentified in Iran up until the 9th century BC (the cultural period identified Iron Age II), centuries after the stage designated as Iron Age I came into existence.Iranian websites with levels determined as dating to the Iron Age were very first excavated in western Iran at Sialk, and later in northwestern Iran around the west, east, and south shores of Lake Urmia, close to the Zagros mountains surrounding Mesopotamia and Anatolia.

These websites stay to date the best-documented full-range Iron Age sites in western Iran.Written sources are unusual at Iranian Iron Age sites, and locally composed texts are non-existent.

Indirect historical recommendation to the region begins in the 9th century BC when Assyrian royal texts first describe various polities in northwestern and western Iran; these referrals continued into the 7th century.

However, relating the Assyrian-named polities with on-the-ground websites is tough; in fact, not one excavated Iranian Iron Age site has actually been conclusively recognized by its ancient name-- although suggested identifications have been brought forth.AFM