Greek Style Architecture Found In The Ancient Achaemenid City

Cultural Heritage News ^ | 6-25-2008

[blam]

Greek Style Architecture Found in the Ancient Achaemenid City

Achaemenid city of Istakhr in Fars Province

Tehran , 25 June 2008: Archaeologists have used geological surveys in the south of Iran to reveal rectangular formations inspired by Greek architecture dating to the Sassanid era. Archeologists have said that the structures located in Fars Province are part of the urban planning of the ancient Achaemenid city of Istakhr during the Sassanid period (226-651 CE).

The design is loaned from Hippodamus style of urban planning during a series of armed conflicts with Persias great rival to the west, the Roman Empire, said Ali Asadi, archeologist and expert on the archeology of Istakhr.

Hippodamus (498 BC - 408 BC) was an ancient Greek architect and urban planner famous for his designs of repeated square geometric shapes.

The wars during the first two Sassanid kings, Ardashir I (206-241 CE) and Shapur I (241-272 CE), brought Roman slaves to the country. The Greek architecture penetrated Iran through the work of the slaves, said Asadi.

Istakhr was once the capital of the Sassanid Empire but today only the archaeological sites of the city remain.

The ancient city once contained the original Avesta before it was burned by Alexander of Macedonia.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

"The ancient city once contained the original Avesta before it was burned by Alexander of Macedonia.

Ahem, Alexander The Great to you towel head POS's!

[ken21]

good one!

[SunkenCiv]

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[Tax-chick]

*snert*

Quite so. There were other Alexanders in the history of Macedon, but we know which one burned out the proto-ragheads, don’t we! Tromped the Egyptians, too.

[Sherman Logan]

Tromped the Egyptians, too.

Not really. They welcomed him as a liberator.

[Tax-chick]

Piddling details ...

No, you’re right. He did rescue them from the Persians, more or less. I was thinking of the Romans, who finally took over.

[SunkenCiv]

Rag And Bone Cup Dates To 300BC
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Posted on 05/27/2008 3:21:27 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022116/posts

[TXnMA]

"Archaeologists have used geological surveys in the south of Iran to reveal rectangular formations inspired by Greek architecture dating to the Sassanid era."

Given my interest in remote sensing, I am intrigued by the term, "geological surveys", above. Some of the sensing methods I have employed that might yield spatial data on buried ruins include:

• Ground penetrating radar -- both from overhead and on the surface

• Proton magnetometer

• Soil resistivity

• Micro-seismology

• Lidar

• Grazing light-angle overhead imagery (plus spatial convolution post-processing)

• And... the ubiquitous "pokey rod" (manual probe) '-)

If you find out any more details as to what "geological survey" techniques the Iranians used, please pass them along...

Thanks!