[SunkenCiv]

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Cover Image Credit: Jiroft vase, 2800-2300 BC. Wikipedia

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"Handbag" looking artifact with decorative motifs excavated from Jiroft. The artifact may have been a weight standard for measurements.

Source: Iran Atlas

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Jiroft culture inscriptions

Arkeonews

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A bowl made of chlorite from Halil Rud with the image of a divinity: the mythical being, half-human and half-scorpion, had a protective function. Besides the relief motifs, the decoration consisted of encrustations of hard stone, shells or coral. Diameter 4.7 in. (12 cm), height 2.7 in.(7 cm), 3rd millenium BC

Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva.

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[ckilmer]

Amazing. I’ve never heard of this civilization before. Their dates suggest that they may have been destroyed by the same Indo-European steppe people who destroyed the Indus River civilization.