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Jiroft | Discover More About Aratta

Research in to this civilization is a relatively recent and ongoing multinational archaeological project that aims to uncover an unknown civilization in a series of newly discovered sites in Iran’s Kerman province, located, known as Jiroft or Halil Rud area. Professor Madjidzadeh the head of archaeologists group in Jiroft said when other archaeologists and I first saw the objects which have been found in Jiroft we strongly believed that civilization started from this area not south of Mesopotamia the mass of discoveries made in fey years in jiroft indicate that the art of carving in this historical site was much more developed that that of the Sumerian civilization which is believed to be the most ancient civilization of the world.

Ziggurat

Also a gigantic ziggurat has been discovered. Below is a comparison between the Great Pyramid of Khufu (largest Egyptian pyramid) and the Great ziggurat of Jiroft.

Inscription

The inscription found earlier in the region, arachnologists believed that the writing language of Jiroft is more ancient that that of Mesopotamia, and the script language was spread to Mesopotamia from the region.

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References

*PW - Persian Wonders (based on our conclusion and study)

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