Bid to restore Siraf fort to former glory

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
budget of 15 billion rials ($50,000) will be allocated to the project, which involves flooring, plastering, and repairing the wooden
to the 4th century AH
It bears plentiful evidence of Persian mastership and genius in seafaring, international relations, and interaction with other near and far
cultures and civilizations.Between 1966 and 1973, the British Institute of Persian Studies conducted seven seasons of excavation and survey
at Siraf, which was a major city on the Iranian shore of the Persian Gulf that played a leading role in the network of maritime trade that
supplied Western Asia with the products of India, the Far East, and Eastern Africa between 800 CE and 1050.The ancient port city had a
population of about 300,000 during the early Islamic era and this fact shows that it was a large city