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Archaeologists will be teaming up with the Kermanshah University of Science and Technology to carry out an archaeological research on the World Heritage Site of Bistun to unearth a settlement date back to the third Iranian dynasty, the Arsacids (Parthians – 248 BCE-224 CE), reported the Persian service of ISNA on Wednesday.
"Last [Iranian] year under the directorship of archaeologist Mehdi Rhabar we focused our research on the Sasanian dynastic palace, and the outcome will be published in due course. In the process we have carried out a survey and opened a number of trenches on the nearby slope, which have been proven to be Parthian and will be our research objective for the next year [Iranian year]", said David Daneshian, the director of Bistun Archaeological Research Centre.
Parthian Bistun Will Be Excavated
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The ancient site of Bistun has suffered extensively since 1979 and the rise of the clerical regime to power in Iran. Bistun like hundreds of other major pre-Islamic Iranian heritage sites has been faced with devastating treatment, as the result of totalitarian-theocratic regime's hostility towards Iran's pre-Islamic past.
Typical.
It's a wonder the bastards haven't emulated the Taliban and blown their heritage up. Still too busy suppressing their own citizens, one supposes.
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