Ayapir, the world’s largest ancient rock relief museum!

http://www.ayapir.com/

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Ayapir (Izeh) is an ancient Elamite town in Iran, this ancient town has the biggest gathered collection of archaeolgical sites and monuments, for instance; Sabz ali and Zebarjad tepes which refer to Zarzian period and the rock releif galleries which show special religous scences. The oldest Iranian rock reliefs have been carved on the slope of Izeh mountains which are related to Early-Elamite period ( 20th century B.C. ) , The rock carvings of Shahsavar, Xong-e-Axhdar and Kul-e-Farah compose this carving group.
Another group which has more variety is related to Neo-Elamite period (12 centuries later) and consists of Eshkaft-e-salman and Kul-e-Farah releifs. The last group of carvings includes some reliefs which are contemporaneous with Seleucid-Parthian period.

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Narin Castle in Meybod, 1st millennium BC, the largest ancient castle in the world:

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This is a six storey castle which has been built by Urartian king Sardur II (760-730 BC), it has an area of 350,000 square meters (500x700 meters) and is 16m high.

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Qamechoqay in Garus, 2nd millennium BC, one of the most mysterious buildings in Iran

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Some hieratic inscriptions which have been found in Bijar show that this huge archaic building can be even traced back to the third millennium BC. To the west of this structure, there is an area, a hundred meters in depth that adjoins the western platform of the building by a difficult path.

One of the entrances:

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People of Bijar(Garus) call it the foot of Ali:

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Atashgah Ziggurat in Isfahan, 205m high
The tallest ancient building in the world

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It looks like a mountain but Archaeologists say it is in fact a huge ziggurat which has been built in 26th century bc!

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