Ghost of a flea

“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.”