INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN - Local people in a southern Iranian village have accidentally discovered two pieces of earthenware, estimated to date from the
Proto-Elamite period, some 3,000 years ago.The relics were unearthed when people were digging the ground to install curbs for a sidewalk in
in the form of a triangle on the edge with a height of about 10 cm, and a simple pot, which was probably used to store spices and special
Naqsh-e Rajab, Tal-e Bakun, Mian Roud, and Ashkeft Gavi to name a few, he said.According to Iranica, the archeological use of the term Elam
is based on a loose unity recognizable in the material cultures of the period 3400-525 BC
Elamite culture can be traced in Susa, which is situated in Khuzestan, in Anshan of Fars, and sites in adjacent areas of the Zagros
mountains, particularly in the modern provinces of Lorestan, Kordestan, and Kerman.Experts believe that Elam was distinct from the
contemporary civilizations of Sumer and the Indus valley in the episodic cultural and political integration of large expanses of
geographically diverse territory
The lines of communication between Susa and Anshan, the largest cities of Elam, as well as with other, more distant mountain regions, were
limited in number and generally difficult, owing to the rugged topography.Proto-Elamite (Susa III/Banesh) period, ca
3400/3200-2800 BC was characterized by a distinctive assemblage of artifacts and an artistic style distributed from Lorestan in the west to
Kerman in the east.Furthermore, the establishment of a city at Anshan during the Proto-Elamite period and smaller outposts at Tepe Sialk and
Tepe Yahya in the eastern highlands suggest that the foundations of the union between lowland and highland regions characteristic of later
Elam were first laid in the late 4th millennium.The ecosystem of the Marvdasht plain, which was once the seat of power for the Achaemenid
That is why the remains of different settlements and cultures have been discovered during many excavations carried out in ancient hills and
historical sites of the plain, cultural heritage expert Hamid Fadaei says.The ancient region, known as Pars (Fars), or Persis, was the heart
of the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great and had its capital at Pasargadae
Darius I the Great moved the capital to nearby Persepolis in the late 6th or early 5th century BC
Alexander the Great defeated the Achaemenian army at Arbela in 331 and burned Persepolis, apparently as revenge on the Persians, because it
seems the Persian King Xerxes had burnt the Greek City of Athens around 150 years earlier.Persis became part of the Seleucid kingdom in 312
