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  • Archaeologists discover ruins of Elymais temple in southwestern Iran

    11/29/2013 6:41:58 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies
    Tehran Times ^ | November 10, 2013 | Culture Desk, MMS/YAW
    A team of Iranian and Italian archaeologists has unearthed ruins of an ancient temple in an Elymais site in the Kaleh Chendar region in southwestern Iran, the Iranian director of the team announced on Saturday. Most parts of the structure have been built with large stones without mortar in form of a broad platform like those built at Persepolis, Jafar Mehrkian told the Persian service of CHN. The structure also includes platforms made of brick, which were usually built in the ancient temples, he added. Vito Messina of the University of Turin and a number of his colleagues accompanied the...