INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Even restoration workshops are active in the citadel
anthropology museum will be launched within the next four months.Situated in a vast desert plateau in the southern reaches of Iran, the
citadel rises like a phoenix again from the intimating earthquake after being almost entirely leveled in 2003.Tracing its origins back to
till 11th centuries when it was one of the key stops on the Silk Route transporting goods between Asia, Europe, and West Asia.Thanks to a
resulting in the Arg-e Bam, the citadel which today is the best (and most photogenic) example of a medieval fortified town built using mud
layers.After the devastating earthquake, heritage experts from within Iran and abroad have worked tirelessly to restore the cultural
small part.Today, some 99% of the project to save Bam is complete and the citadel is back ready to accept visitors.According to UNESCO,
Arg-e Bam is the most representative example of a fortified medieval town built in vernacular technique using mud layers (Chineh), sun-dried
mud bricks (khesht), and vaulted and domed structures.Bam and its Cultural Landscape represents an outstanding example of an ancient
fortified settlement that developed around the Iranian central plateau and is an exceptional testimony to the development of a trading
settlement in the desert environment of the Central Asian region
This impressive construction undoubtedly represents the climax and is the most important achievement of its type not only in the area of Bam
but also in a much wider cultural region of Western Asia.The cultural landscape of Bam is an important representation of the interaction
between man and nature and retains a rich resource of ancient canalizations, settlements, and forts as landmarks and tangible evidence of
the evolution of the area
The UNESCO-designated Bam and its Cultural Landscape is situated on the southern edge of the Iranian high plateau close to the Pakistan
