[SunkenCiv]

Digging in the wrong place, or the wrong hill?

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Ecbatana (Hegmataneh) Hill, present day Hamedan province

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[SunkenCiv]

Perhaps the Medes only built in the median.

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[ApplegateRanch]

Masoud Azarnoush told CHN that stratigraphy works and dowsing operations in five places on the hill have only revealed evidence of the Parthian civilization (248 BC–224 AD)...

I believe I have spotted the problem.

They're using the wrong rods for that time period. They should be bronze, rather than iron.