TEHRAN – New boundaries will be defined for an ancient hill in the city of Zagheh, western Lorestan province in the near future, the provincial tourism chief has said.

The project aims at preserving and protecting the hill, which has been inscribed on the national heritage list, Ata Hassanpur explained on Monday.

Lorestan, which is a region of raw beauty, was inhabited by Iranian Indo-European peoples, including the Medes, c. 1000 BC. Cimmerians and Scythians intermittently ruled the region from about 700 to 625 BC. The Luristan Bronzes are noted for their eclectic array of Assyrian, Babylonian, and Iranian artistic motifs.

Lorestan was incorporated into the growing Achaemenid Empire in about 540 BC and successively was part of the Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanid dynasties.

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