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August 09, 2004
Nushabad
A three-story underground city, believed to have been a refuge in times of trouble, has been discovered beneath the Iranian town of Nushabad. Scroll down for the only photo I have been able to find of the Nushabad cite.
“The city is built according to a systematically laid-out plan and it is likely all the residents had a hand in building it, since it seems a gargantuan task to me,” said Ehsan Zera’at, architecture scholar. Archaeologists have so far dug out several earthenware vessels and two fat-burning lanterns. The potteries date from the Sassanid dynasty (226-651) to Safavid era (1501-1722), said Sadat, a graduate archaeology student, adding, “The city has been built during the Sassanid era and has been dwelled and used till the Safavid period, at most.”
Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 9, 2004 08:27 AM
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