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PostPosted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 3:34 pm    Post subject: Jiroft New 5000 Years Old Great Archeological Finding Reply with quote

11/7/02
Archeological surveys underway in Jiroft

Tehran, Nov 6, IRNA -- Excavators have begun their archeological surveys at `Halilroud' district in Jiroft, Kerman province in search of remnants of ancient cultures and trends in cultural and civilizational exchanges between Iran's central desert and Mesopotamia.

According to a report released here on Wednesday by Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization, the archeological project is underway on both sides of `Halilroud River' in an area measuring 250 sq.kms.

The experts believe that `Halilroud' with its branches is one of the most vital cultural-civilizational arteries of Iran's central desert and southeastern Iran.

According to them `Halilroud' archeological area provided a suitable habitat for various tribes and development of their civilizations.

An archeologist, Yousef Majidzadeh, is convinced that once an ancient monarchy enjoying a glorious art and civilization, known as `Earth', ruled over this part of Iran.

He believes that it included various cities as well as numerous cultural and civilizational centers.

According to him, the cultures prevailing the area acted as a cultural corridor and played a decisive role in forming the most ancient Mesopotamian civilization.

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Tuesday, 26 February 2002

TEHRAN -- The Chief Judge of the Jiroft Court, Dadkhoda Salari, said that 130 stolen ancient artefacts have been recovered in Jiroft, Fars Province. He said that some of the artefacts are up to 4,000 years old.

Also, the Director of the Information Center of the Law Enforcement Forces of Gilan, Khodadad Qanbar-zadeh, said that some 323 artefacts were seized in Gilan province.

He added that four smugglers were arrested.
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7/29/03
Iran's ancient relics plundered in Jiroft

Head of Jiroft Cultural Heritage Department, Abdolali Hessam Arefi, said on Monday that ancient monuments in some villages bordering Halilroud river and central Jiroft are still being plundered and no measure has yet been taken to stop it, IRNA reported from Kerman province.

He told IRNA that plunderers are currently excavating some of the identified historical sites dating back to the beginning of fifth millennium BC up to Islamic era.

Given that the Cultural Heritage Guards have been dispatched to the area to protect the archaic sites and hills in Jiroft, Arefi said the force should be first armed and then dispatched to the area.

"During the scientific excavations conducted by three archaeological groups who have been working in Jiroft in the past year, over 100 ancient sites have been unearthed along the Halilroud river banks," he noted.

The official pointed out that by mid 2001, some illegal excavations were conducted across Jiroft by groups consisting of 1,000 to 2,000 members and added that hundreds of thousands valuable artifacts have been unearthed and plundered by smugglers.

"The ancient sites in Jiroft were guarded by the Basiji forces of the Islamic Republic Guards Corpse until early spring, when the police forces took over," he said.

About 50 precious ancient objects have been confiscated by the police in the past three months.

Head of a cultural heritage group who is involved in scientific excavations in the area, Hamideh Chubak, said that the area is of such a high significance that tens of prominent world archaeologists are determined to visit Iran in the second half of the current Iranian year (started March 21).

The experts have declared that Halilroud civilization in Jiroft known as `Earth' has deeply influenced the Sumerian civilization and the world archaeologists have been doing research on it for two centuries.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:22 pm    Post subject: Extremely Concerned About Jirfot Site Close To BAM Reply with quote

Due to the fact that the Islamic Mafia Clerics corruption have no limit and entire Regime is very corrupt therefore I am very concerned regarding Jiroft and I hope UN send a big team to protect Jiroft Site. With loosing Arg-e-BAM engineering master piece with sophisticated Air Conditioning and Swege system from 2000 years ago, we need help from UN to protect Jirfot site for research, future generation and human civilization history.
Activists should watch Jiroft and EU Museum must avoid buying anything from Clerics in Iran. Islamic Clerics of Iran are symbol of hate and destruction and we have to watch them all the time untill Iranian people remove this regime from power. President Bush is right when he said the Clerics in Iran are true "Axis of Evil", because president Bush is one of the few people who get all kind of true reports.

Help From UN needed in Jiroft.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 2:39 pm    Post subject: London & Paris flooded with looted Iranian antiquities Reply with quote

Source Of Information: H. Hakimi Email Broadcast

London and Paris markets flooded with looted Iranian antiquities
Thousands of objects have been plundered from a newly discovered site at Jiroft



By Edek Osser

JIROFT, IRAN. In January 2001 a group of Iranians from Jiroft in the southwestern province of Kerman stumbled upon an ancient tomb. Inside they found a hoard of objects decorated with highly distinctive engravings of animals, mythological figures and architectural motifs.

They did not realise it at the time but they had just made one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of recent years, one that is radically altering accepted notions of the development of the world’s earliest civilisations in Iran and Mesopotamia between the fourth and third millennia BC.

A few weeks after the discovery, officials from Iran’s Ministry of Culture, vastly out numbered by local people, watched hopelessly as thousands systematically dug up the area. The locals set up a highly organised impromptu system to manage the looting: each family was allocated an equal plot of six square-metres to dig.

This organised pillaging continued for an entire year. Dozens of tombs were discovered, some containing up to 60 objects, and thousands of ancient objects were removed. All of these were destined for overseas markets.
In February 2002 Iran’s Islamic police finally arrived in force to stop the destruction. Some 2,000 objects were confiscated from locals in Jiroft and other hoards of the ancient artefacts ready to be shipped overseas were seized in Tehran and at Bandar Abbas.

The objects confiscated by the police are unlike anything ever seen before by archaeologists. Many are made from chlorite, a grey-green soft stone, others are in copper, bronze, terracotta, even lapis lazuli. They are now being studied by a group of Iranian archaeologists led by Professor Yousef Madjidzadeh. Official excavation of the site began in February 2003. It is focusing on both the necropolis, which was looted extensively, and on an ancient settlement not discovered by the looters.

The finds at Jiroft were first publicised last August when an illustrated catalogue of some of the objects was circulated at a conference in Tehran (Yousef Majidzadeh, Jiroft: the earliest Oriental civilisation, Organisation of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Tehran, 2003).

But much of the damage done at Jiroft is irreversible: the tombs that were plundered were completely emptied and hoards of the artefacts have already appeared for sale in Europe. In 2002 vases from the site were offered for sale at Drouot in Paris and, according to market specialists, the artefacts are on offer with several dealers in France. They are usually catalogued as vases from “Kerman” or with the more generic description of “Middle Eastern”.

A group of some 80 Jiroft artefacts was known to be on offer in London last year with a price tag of £600,000. An important group, seen by the author of this article, is now being offered for sale in a prominent London gallery. The dealer said that he is worried about the growing number of fake Jiroft vases now circulating on the market. These could be the work of the very same locals who looted the site in the first place and have access to the same chlorite quarries of their ancestors.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 3:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Extremely Concerned About Jirfot Site Close To BAM Reply with quote

cyrus wrote:
Due to the fact that the Islamic Mafia Clerics corruption have no limit and entire Regime is very corrupt therefore I am very concerned regarding Jiroft and I hope UN send a big team to protect Jiroft Site. With loosing Arg-e-BAM engineering master piece with sophisticated Air Conditioning and Swege system from 2000 years ago, we need help from UN to protect Jirfot site for research, future generation and human civilization history.
Activists should watch Jiroft and EU Museum must avoid buying anything from Clerics in Iran. Islamic Clerics of Iran are symbol of hate and destruction and we have to watch them all the time untill Iranian people remove this regime from power. President Bush is right when he said the Clerics in Iran are true "Axis of Evil", because president Bush is one of the few people who get all kind of true reports.

Help From UN needed in Jiroft.


The UN won't do anything Cryus.. The UN are a bunch of thieves and crooks to begin with.. just ask Perle and Frum.. or see for yourself..
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