Posted on 08/24/2004 8:47:00 PM PDT by BlackVeil
TEHRAN (AFP) -- One of Iran's main historical sites, the ancient Elamite capital of Susa, has been used for the secret nightly dumping of rubbish by the local municipality, a culture official in the area told AFP Tuesday.
"We have filed several complaints against the municipality, but it firmly denies its workers have ever done such a thing -- even though they have been frequently spotted by our guards," said the head of the Cultural Heritage Organization in Shush, the modern name for Susa.
But the official, Mahdi Qanbari, also complained that the municipality was also planning to build a bus depot near the string of historic sites -- a further blow following years of illegal excavations.
"The 16 hectare site has not been fully excavated. There are still thousands of precious objects to be unearthed." Qanbari complained, saying the planned bus depot would be situated near an ancient palace of the Persian king Darius the Great.
Susa was an important and flourishing city before the advent of Islam in Iran and the center of the Elamite Empire (around 2500-644 B.C.). It is situated in the far southwestern province of Khuzestan and adjacent to the border with Iraq.
The ancient city is also mentioned in Old Testament as the place where the prophet Daniel lived. He is also reputed to have been buried there.
Artifacts unearthed from the area include a plaque reputed to be the world's first constitution, currently preserved at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
"What we need is a much larger staff and a local station to safeguard the site. We do not even have night patrols," Qanbari said in a telephone interview.
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"TEHRAN (AFP) -- One of Iran's main historical sites, the ancient Elamite capital of Susa, has been used for the secret nightly dumping of rubbish by the local municipality, a culture official in the area told AFP Tuesday. "
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Holy, Bizarro, whatever.
The truth comes out about what "holy" means to Muslims.
Does this mean that the Frogs stole it?
"Susa was an important and flourishing city before the advent of Islam in Iran and the center of the Elamite Empire (around 2500-644 B.C.)."
This is way before Mohammad....it's NOT a muslim holy site.
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This is horrible. How can they forget their noble history? HasIslam distorted their minds and reduced them so low?
BUMP!
Actually this site is not a holy Muslim site, it's a holy Zoroastrian site.
Iranians were Zoroastrian for hundreds of years before the invasion of Islam from the west from Arabia.
At least. Cyrus the Great captured Susa in 538 BC, and moved the capital of his empire there. The Muslims didn't show up until 639 AD.
So Susa was under Zoroastrianism for 1176 years.
628 BC Zoroaster was born. This religion has been around for well over 2000 years.
And Christianity as well for at least 2000 years.
http://www.iranchamber.com/religions/history_of_christianity_iran1.php
Jeeez, now the whole place looks like a garbage dump! Perhaps Waste Management will make them an offer they can't refuse, for the whole country.
Well there's something good for the U.N. to do.
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