TEHRAN – A team of journalists and media personnel has recently examined archaeological excavations currently underway at the Ozbaki zone, parts of which date some 9,000 years.

The team visited the eighth archaeological season being carried out on Doushan Tepe, one of the zone’s satellite hills, CHTN reported on Friday.

The archaeological season has yielded mud brick ruins, which initial estimates suggest may date from the Achaemenid era ( c. 550-330 BC).

So far, cultural material dating from the first half of the 7th millennium to the first half of the first millennium BC, i.e. the Medes period, has been unearthed across the zone, which is situated near Nazarabad, some 80 km west of Tehran.

“Here in Doushan Tepe, we have found square tiles measuring 35cm by 40cm, which are probably related to the Achaemenid period,” archaeologist Mehrdad Malekzadeh told reporters.

However, the samples will be used for radiocarbon and OSL tests. If this is the case, the Achaemenid period will be added to the time sequence previously sketched.

Experts suggest that the discovery of certain objects in the archaeological zone indicates some kind of commercial links to Susa in the Khuzestan region, southwest Iran.

AFM