Archaeologists return to Shoghali Tepe
Archaeologists have recently resumed excavation at the 7000-year-old site at Shoghali Tepe in Pishva.
This is the third season the mound, located near the city of Varamin in southeastern Tehran Province, is being excavated by an archaeological team led by Moteza Hesari, the Persian service of CHN reported on Wednesday.
The team was scheduled to begin the season of excavation in early August, but it was postponed and Hesari declined to explain the reasons behind the delay.
However, the Research Section director of Tehran Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department, Ali Farhani, said that “some administrative problems” were the reasons for the postponement.
“The team, which has begun working over the past few days, plans to carry out an in-depth study on the site’s strata,” he explained.
According to Farhani, the site contains strata dating from the 5th millennium BC to the late Iron Age.
Shoghali Tepe was discovered in 1983 in the early stages of construction of a building on the mound for the former Komite-ye Enqelab-e Eslami, a group of militias comprising Islamic revolutionaries. The construction project was stopped after they found out the mound is a prehistoric site.
The site was first excavated by Ahmad Tehrani-Moqaddam in early 1980 and then abandoned for years.
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This is the third season the mound, located near the city of Varamin in southeastern Tehran Province, is being excavated by an archaeological team led by Moteza Hesari, the Persian service of CHN reported on Wednesday.
The team was scheduled to begin the season of excavation in early August, but it was postponed and Hesari declined to explain the reasons behind the delay.
However, the Research Section director of Tehran Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department, Ali Farhani, said that “some administrative problems” were the reasons for the postponement.
“The team, which has begun working over the past few days, plans to carry out an in-depth study on the site’s strata,” he explained.
According to Farhani, the site contains strata dating from the 5th millennium BC to the late Iron Age.
Shoghali Tepe was discovered in 1983 in the early stages of construction of a building on the mound for the former Komite-ye Enqelab-e Eslami, a group of militias comprising Islamic revolutionaries. The construction project was stopped after they found out the mound is a prehistoric site.
The site was first excavated by Ahmad Tehrani-Moqaddam in early 1980 and then abandoned for years.