Posted on 03/24/2010 5:50:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
With regard to the discovery of the Parthian site, Daneshian explained: "The slope is mostly situated within the boundary of Bistun's World registered heritage site, near the [historical] hillside and the Achaemenid inscription, which is confirmed to be a settlement dating back to Arsacid dynasty. A current survey as well as the previous research and recovered artefacts points out to the importance of the settlement during the Arsacids dynastic period in this part of the country."
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.
The regime for over three decades has not only ignored the plundering and vandalism of the site, but has also caused extensive damages to the site, from cutting into the archaeological site for laying cables, constructing an industrial town, chemical factories, and road construction.
Back in 2006 the regime cut the site's budget to force the Bistun's staff and security in order to force them to leave the site and to be left unprotected. The courageous staff recognised the regime's plot and worked for nearly a year without receiving any wages, to make sure no harm would come to this invaluable site. At the end, the Islamic Republic was forced to reinstate the budget.
The ancient site was registered on the World Heritage Site in July 2006.
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Bistun, also Bisotun is located in western Iran, 30 kilometres northeast of Kermanshah on the foothill of a mountain by the same name, along the ancient trade route linking the Iranian high plateau with Mesopotamia. The ancient site features remains from the prehistoric times to the first Iranian dynasty, the Medians (728-550 BCE), and their heirs, the Achaemenid (550-330 BCE), Parthian (278 BCE-224 CE) Sasanian (224-651 CE) dynasties and Ilkhanid period.
The principal monument of this archaeological site is the bas-relief and cuneiform-inscription ordered by Darius the Great, when he rose to the throne in 521 BCE.
Hey, it’s the guy who greets visitors to the city, like Vegas Vic.
Ah ha! This carving from the Time of Ignorance is related to gambling, which is a sin! Destroy! Destroy!
Thanks FN!
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