• Tepe Sialk (Persian: تپه سیلک) is a large ancient archeological site (a tepe, "hill, tell") in a suburb of the city of Kashan, Isfahan Province, in central...
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    lower elevation. On August 9, 2007, Iran placed the Historical Axis of Fin, Sialk, Kashan on its Tentative List for possible future nomination as a UNESCO...
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    no longer extant Etemenanki in Babylon, Chogha Zanbil in Khūzestān and Sialk. The Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of...
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    archaeologists uncovered some artifacts that they linked to those from Sialk and Marvdasht. Previous archeological excavations in the Zayandeh River...
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    Rustam Pasargadae Persepolis Shahr-e Sukhteh Susa Takht-e Soleymān Tepe Sialk Counties of Iran International rankings of Iran List of castles in Iran...
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    Shahr-i Sokhta Konar Sandal Tepe Yahya Zayandeh River Civilization Tappeh Sialk Paleolithic sites Niasar Sefid-Ab Kaftar Khoun Qaleh Bozi Caves Mirak Delazian...
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    the original inhabitants of the city, whose remains are found at Tapeh Sialk dating back 9,000 years; later this changed to Kashian, hence the town name...
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    Do-Ashkaft Cave Warwasi Bisitun Cave Kashafrud Kani Sib Neolithic Tappeh Sialk Ganj Dareh Ali Kosh Hajji Firuz Tepe Jiroft culture (3rd millennium BC)...
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    some affinities with the ceramics found at another Elamite site of Tepe Sialk. Tepe Giyan was first excavated by French archaeologists George Contenau...
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  • Bahrain Diraz Temple – circa 3rd millennium BCE, in present-day Bahrain Tepe Sialk – claimed to be the world's oldest ziggurat built in 3000 BC, in present-day...
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    Proto-Elamite sites are Susa and Anshan. Another important site is Tepe Sialk, where the only remaining Proto-Elamite ziggurat is still seen. Texts in...
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  • the Sialk Reconsideration Project in 1999. Tepe Sialk was by a team headed by Roman Ghirshman and his wife Tania Ghirshman, excavated Tepe Sialk for three...
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    Iraq, Chogha Zanbil in Khūzestān, Iran, the most recent to be discovered – Sialk near Kashan, Iran and others. Ziggurats were built by the Sumerians, Babylonians...
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    Godin Tepe Rey (Rhages, Europos, Shahr-e-Ray, Arsacia) Chogha Mish Tepe Sialk Susa (Shush, Shushan) Kabnak (Haft Tepe) Dur Untash (Chogha Zanbil) Shahr-e...
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  • Thus Shir-e Shian may represent the transitional period between Sialk II and Sialk III periods in north-central Iran, preceding the beginning of Tepe...
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    Halaf-Ubaid Umm Dabaghiya Samarra (6000–4800 BC) Tepe Muhammad Djafar Tepe Sialk 5200 Linear Pottery culture (5500–4500 BC) Amuq B Hacilar Mersin 24–22  ...
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    and Uruk (58) (small numbers in Jemdat Nasr (2), Chogha Mish (1), Tepe Sialk (10), Tutub (1) and Mari (1)) including some that lack later Proto-Elamite...
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    Halaf-Ubaid Umm Dabaghiya Samarra (6000–4800 BC) Tepe Muhammad Djafar Tepe Sialk 5200 Linear Pottery culture (5500–4500 BC) Amuq B Hacilar Mersin 24–22  ...
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    can be compared to the not-so-sophisticated geometric style found in Tepe Sialk. R. D. Barnett argued that the so-called Scythian style, more precisely...
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    Egypt, Susa (Iran) and some ancient sites in China, Luristan (Iran), Tepe Sialk (Iran), Mundigak (Afghanistan), and Mesopotamia (Iraq). Tin bronze was superior...
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    Halaf-Ubaid Umm Dabaghiya Samarra (6000–4800 BC) Tepe Muhammad Djafar Tepe Sialk 5200 Linear Pottery culture (5500–4500 BC) Amuq B Hacilar Mersin 24–22  ...
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    tablets, tablet blanks found) Tepe Sofalin (12 tablets and fragments) Tepe Sialk (5 tablets) Ozbaki (one tablet) Shahr-e Sukhteh (one tablet) Tal-e Ghazir...
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    interested in the archeological ruins of Iran, specifically Tepe Giyan, Teppe Sialk, Bagram in Afghanistan, Bishapur in Fars, and Susa. In the 1930s, Girshman...
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  • Iransafar (2021-11-09). "Silk Road". Iran Safar. Retrieved 2024-04-02. "Sialk hills, the story of 7,500-year-old ziggurat". Tehran Times. 2023-03-15....
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    outside this area, spread out on the Iranian plateau; such as Warakshe, Sialk (now a suburb of the modern city of Kashan) and Jiroft in Kerman Province...
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    is the step pyramids of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, such as the Teppe Sialk ziggurat or the Pyramid of Djoser. For centuries, setbacks were a structural...
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    Sialk, Shahr-i Sokhta, and Ecbatana. Elamite and proto-Elamite buildings among others, are covered within this stylistic subcategory as well. Sialk necropolis...
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    Halaf-Ubaid Umm Dabaghiya Samarra (6000–4800 BC) Tepe Muhammad Djafar Tepe Sialk 5200 Linear Pottery culture (5500–4500 BC) Amuq B Hacilar Mersin 24–22  ...
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    Gezer), Iraq (Uruk, Nippur, Ur, Nineveh, Ashur, Babylon), Iran (Tappeh Sialk, Susa, Luristan), Turkey (Karalhuyuk, Kultepe, Acemhuyuk), Azerbaijan (Gobustan)...
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  • in the Kashan region., In S.M. Shahmirzadi (ed.), The Silversmiths of Sialk (Sialk Reconsideration Project), Report No. 2: 151–168. Archaeological Research...
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