Tehran, YJC. A unique jar made of marble is found in excavation operations in the site of the ancient Shahr-e Sookhteh (Burnt City) in southeastern Iran.
An Iranian Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization Monday
report said the unique object was excavated from the grave of a young woman and
her child in the Burnt City cemetery.
The Burnt City is an archaeological site of a relatively
large Bronze Age urban settlement which is associated with the Jiroft culture.
The site is located in Sistan-Baluchistan, to the
southeastern part of Iran, on the bank of the Helmand River.
The Burnt City was placed on the World Heritage List of
UNESCO in July 2014.
Artifacts excavated from the city demonstrate a peculiar disimilarity
with nearby civilizations of the time and it has been surmised that
Shahr-e-Sookhteh may eventually provide concrete evidence of a civilization
east of prehistoric Persia that was independent from the ancient Mesopotamia.
The Burnt City covers an area of 151 hectares and used to be
one of the world’s largest cities at the onset of the urban era. There is a
vast graveyard In the western part of the site which measures 25 hectares. It is
believed to house something between 25,000 to 40,000 ancient graves.