Posted on 07/28/2006 10:25:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Diggings related to construction of a gas pipeline from Iran to Armenia has partially destroyed remains of the oldest city called "Dragon Stone" (Azhdaha Dashi) in East Azerbaijan province of Iran. "Dragon Stone" includes ruins of an ancient city built 1000 years before Christ and is located at 40 kilometers east of Andarjan village of Varzighan county... "Dragon Stone" was declared a historic site and a protected area... However, Iran's gas company has started digging in the area despite the declaration... The representative of Cultural Heritage and Tourism office has added that studies of the 3000 year old "Dragon Stone" by archaeologists have not been completed to date and further studies are needed, and by its destruction a big segment of history of Iranian Azerbaijan will be lost. He has also said that construction of Iran-Armenia gas pipeline has resulted in destruction of several historic cemeteries.
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In Alaska we build around ancient sites. Well, we do now; it might not have always been so.
Hard to see how a pipeline can destroy the remnants of an ancient city, unless the city just happened to be built identically as a pipeline.
The notion that an archeological site has been known for a hundred years or more, but not deemed "important" enough to excavate and investigate until a pipeline is built is to say the least, "suspicious".
No, I have no idea what prompts the handwringing now, but I see it as hyperbole.
"Dragon Stone" - very interesting name - I wonder what the background of that is?
Muslims have no respect for anything ancient unless it is Muslim.
It's probably a corruption of "draggin' stone", the activity that occupied the builders for several generations. ;')
Jade is also known in China as the Dragon Stone
http://www.cedarseed.com/air/jade.html
According to myth, the stone was born during a storm, and for this reason every home had jade in its foundations to keep lightning at bay
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen any other country that takes so much care over historical sites than Britain. If they’re putting in a new rail system, building, or subway, and they either know ahead of time, or come upon ruins, graves, etc., they stop all construction, and bring in archaeologists to conduct detailed digs, and in the case of burials, consistently dig up each body, move it to a special building for further study, and methodically clear the site so construction can begin again. And if they find ruins on a building site, they will work to get the builders to incorporate as much of the original ruin as they can within the new building, ie., basement construction redesigned so the ruins are visible under clear platforms/walkways, etc. It’s amazing how fastidious, and thorough they are about these things.
True, and it's become more of a thing due to the buildout, people leaving the cities. The Victorians built affordable but modest housing to handle a population boom, but weren't nearly as careful. They tended to build within or on the margins of existing cities, luckily.
Here and there in the old Time Team episodes they'd find that buried services had cut right through some foundation or other buried remains, and the installers must have noticed the stones and whatnot, but, oh well. Much better job is getting done today.
I'm glad they do that, as the living gotta live, but I'm not an advocate of the old Greek anecdote, happy are they who have no history.
A prog rock band of the early 1970s, Public Foot the Roman, took its name from a worn sign near one of their residences, which had read, "Public Footpath to the Roman Fort". Wish we had a Roman fort around here, alas, nothin'. If we did, it would be hard to explain. :^)
Most US households before WWII didn't have autos, in the 1950s basically all did, and the Interstate Hwy Act supported and juiced growth in suburban living. In Britain the cummuter rail system was more wideranging because pop distribution was different than here, and there's an obvious difference in size.
Oh wow, and I was off anyway, the lyric is "we got the funk". I didn't listen to that **** back then, but vaguely remember it. Never liked the Go-Gos either. :^)
We never had a car growing up, but as a kid in Rochester, New York in the 50's, I remember the City digging up a cemetery to put in a new expressway. We were visiting friends with our parents, and we were playing down the street from the house. Bulldozers were digging up the graves that were eventually moved to another site in the City. It really stuck in my mind, to the point that I said I didn't want to be buried, but cremated, and have my ashes scattered, because I didn't want them digging up my grave 100 years from now to put in a new highway. And then the movie "Poltergeist" came out, which featured the scene of the mother during a heavy rain storm, falling into the hole dug to put a pool in, and all these bodies came floating up to the surface from a cemetery that hadn't been properly cleared.
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