Iranian, Foreign Experts To Excavate Salt Men's Necropolis

Mehr News ^ | 6-30-2008

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Iranian, foreign experts to excavate salt men’s necropolis

TEHRAN, June 30 (MNA) -- A joint team of Iranian and foreign experts will collaborate on a project planned to excavate the Chehrabad Salt Mine, where all six of the “salt men” were discovered. Archaeologists and experts on other related fields from Germany, England, and Austria will participated in the project, which is expected to begin in spring 2009 in the salt mine located in the Hamzehlu region near Zanjan, northern Iran, the Persian service of CHN reported on Monday.

“The Chehrabad Salt Mine is one of important Iranian ancient sites, on which archaeological studies should regularly be continued,” the Archaeology Research Center of Iran Director Mohammad-Hassan Fazeli Nashli said.

The results of the studies carried out in UK University of York and Oxford University on the salt men, which were offered during a two-day international conference on the Iranian mummies in Zanjan in October 2007, showed how much the interdisciplinary fields have progressed and can contribute to the development of the archaeological sciences, he explained.

The researches partially shed light on the salt men’s diet. Based on the studies, the experts surmise that the Fourth Salt Man had come from Mazandaran, a region in northern Iran, to Zanjan, Fazeli Nashli added.

Some of the salt men have been damaged over the past 14 years as a large area of the privately-owned salt mine has been bulldozed.

Studies on the Fourth Salt Man indicate that the body is 2000 years old and he was 15 or 16 years old at the time of death.

It is still not clear when the other salt men lived, but archaeologists estimate that the First Salt Man lived about 1700 years ago and died sometime between the ages of 35 and 40. He is currently on display in a glass case at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.

Four of the salt men are kept at the Rakhtshuikhaneh Museum in Zanjan and the Sixth Salt Man was left in-situ due to the dearth of equipment necessary for its preservation.

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[Soliton]

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Sixth Salt Man Discovered in Chehr-Abad Mine

[isrul]

I don't understand any particular significance to these things. They're not that old. Especially in the historical scheme of the area. There may be gratsignificance to somebody. But I just don't get it. And I usually love these kind of stories.

[STD]

Well, obviously you are not properly taking your doctors advice and watching your salt. Look you smuck what salt did to these sheeploving goat herders from Goofistan, the sandy inhospitable garden of Eden located in the soon very holy,hooly hooly city of Qum. See, this is where the 8th Iman was last seen dry humping a small donkey and he feel into a well etc,,,

A part of a nation of seventh century madmen like President(Kill the Jews)Arminablowjab from Iran.

Come on don't you want to survive to live to the ripe old age of 2,000, or are you gonna watch your blood pressure Bubby?

I say Viva va va va Viagra and then lets take some other pills sold on TV to grow larger watermelons in our pants. I just love the FDA, don't you?

[SunkenCiv]

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