Burnt city with photos

An unknown civilization from the beginning of the settlement period in the Iranian plateau:

first backgammon

first animation

first cumin tree

first Signs of surgery on humans

Burnt city is located 57 kilometers from Zabel to Zahedan road. This huge ancient site located in Sistan is one of the beginning centers of settlement in the central plateau of Iran. . Because of the fire in the years 3200 It happened in this city until 2750 BC, they named it Burned City, and there is no written document that specifies the name of this city..

this city 151 It has an area of ​​one hectare and was made up of five parts: Large residential area 80 hectare, central, industrial, memorial and cemetery. In 5000 years before Christ, this area was inhabited and there were Majnoon willow, maple and sapidar trees in it, and the Hirmand River irrigated its agricultural lands. 3200 The lake was big and full of water . With the excavations carried out in the city, traces of sewage pipes have been obtained, which shows the culture of urban living in this region. Burnt city was a large industrial center in the field of pottery and jewelry. The goldsmiths of this city made sheets thinner than one millimeter. Gold was cut into different shapes and lapis lazuli stones were placed in them. Fishing is also one of the activities It was done by the people of the city with hook and net. Weaving cloth and mat weaving is also done in this place.

archaeologist 108 They have investigated the graves in this area and in some of them up to 8 There were corpses among the corpses of thirty-one men, thirty-six women and several children and babies who were buried by one or more people.. Archaeologists believe that for a long time in this city, mothers suffered from malnutrition and many of their babies were stillborn..

In the excavations of this area, it was found that the first backgammon board was made in this area and backgammon board 60 A house found in this area is the first in the world. Also, the oldest cumin tree in this area has left its traces. In addition, the oldest animation of the ancient world is engraved on the clay obtained from the burnt city, which depicts a goat. It shows that he is chewing leaves from a tree and standing on the tree. This piece of pottery belongs to five thousand years ago. The backgammon board obtained from the burnt city is one hundred to two hundred years older than its similar example in Mesopotamia. The architecture of the houses is based on clay. The pottery of this region is of the pea type..

Its most famous pottery is of the Turkmen type, which accounts for about 40% of the pottery in the region. One of the most important works found in this place is a tablet written in ancient Elamite script. Malikites used seals, and a large number of them have been found. Among the more than 40,000 bodies that were burned in the city, archaeologists have found only one body that did not die a natural death and was probably executed.. In the graves, they placed tools that were related to the person's life. Garlic plants can also be seen in most of them. In some of the graves, there are thin gold sheets with holes that horse hair can hardly pass through..

In one of the graves, a skeleton of a woman's head was found, on which the site of surgery was visible. Also, an artificial eye was recently discovered from one of the graves in this area, and its material is natural bitumen, and the place of the capillaries of the eye is embedded in it. have done.