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Sirous_Nekooei
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Loc: Mashhad, Iran

Tomb of Cyrus the Great in Pasargadae, Iran

#80697 - 08/23/05 05:19 AM

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Tomb of Cyrus the Great in Pasargadae, Iran

Upon his taking of Babylon, Cyrus issued a declaration, inscribed on a clay barrel known as the Cyrus Cylinder, which contains an account of his victories and merciful acts as well as a documentation of his royal lineage. It was discovered in 1879 in Babylon and today is kept in the British Museum. Many historians consider it to be the first declaration of human rights. (From Wikipedia).

The placemark shows the location of pasargadae, in low res.

Sirous

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Re: The Sivand dam will destroy Pasargadae

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#95975 - 09/02/05 11:54 PM

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More than 100 of Iran's potentially most important but least examined archaeological sites, including fringes of Pasargadae, the city built by King Cyrus the Great, will be flooded in the next two years according to the UN, which appealed yesterday to international scientists to try to record what they can.

The flooding of the eight-mile Tang-e-Bolaghi gorge because of the construction of a dam will destroy ancient Persia's imperial road which ran from Persepolis to Pasargadae

The Sivand dam has been planned for 10 years as part of a project to provide irrigation water for farmers in the parched south of the country.
But the speed of its construction and the scale of what will be lost have surprised scientists and the UN.

Iranian archaeologists have pinpointed 129 sites of interest in the gorge, ranging from prehistoric finds to remains of the Qajar monarchy which fell in 1925.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1378845,00.html

Edited by yazdanp (09/02/05 11:59 PM)

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Sirous_Nekooei
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Re: The Sivand dam will destroy Pasargadae

[Re: yazdanp]
#96114 - 09/03/05 02:42 AM

Thanks for the (bad) news!

Hope they will stop the construction.

Sirous

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