The new Bronze Age layer was discovered in the excavations of the city of Ray.
The head of the archeology program of Reshkan Ray Fortress announced the ideification of the “New Bronze Age” layer in the archaeological exploration of the historical city of Ray for the first time and requested that the world registration of the ancie city of Ray be given priority and a firm and saving order to revive and save this famous historical city. and the Islamic era to be issued.
“Qadir Afrond”, the head of the archeology program for exploring and determining the area and proposal for the protection of Reshkan Ray Fortress (the ceer of the historical city of Ray) told ISNA:
dThis year’s program, which is carried out after 17 years of the second season of the archaeologist’s excavation of the Rashkan fortress, in two archaeological boreholes, a detailed layer of cultural materials (grey, plum and pea pottery pieces) of the New Bronze Age (1900 to 1500 BC) was ideified At the beginning of the work, and of course since the 80s, the presence of a significa amou of gray pottery pieces in the deposits of the barrow area and even the surface of the historic Sharstan area of Ray was strange and unexpected.
Afrond added:
Our mission in this season is to determine the area and propose the protection of the historical area of Reshkan Fortress or the ceer of the ancie city of Ray; But unexpectedly, at a considerable depth of a test borehole outside the historical Sharstan of Ray, we suddenly came across many and impressive pieces of gray pottery that were under the middle Islamic layer. Surprisingly, this layer was very detailed and about two meters thick, and except for pottery fragmes of a differe and unexpected period, no other findings were found!
The supervisor of the exploration and determination of the area and proposal for the protection of Rashkan Ray fortress said:
Initial investigations and then consultation and thinking with expert and experienced archaeologist colleagues turned our initial guess io certaiy and it turned out that we are facing an unknown historical period in the magnifice Ray.
According to this archeologist, this newly known and renewed period is clearly the “New Bronze Age” which, according to the history of Iranian archaeological researches and excavations, spans from about 1900 BC to 1500 BC.
Afrond said:
The revelation of this prehistoric period in Ray is very importa for all of us expert archaeologists and researchers of Ray archeology. In the past, we always found many pieces of gray pottery on the slope and among the rubble of clay and layered barrages during the surface survey of the ceral area (Sharistan) of the ancie city of Ray. But we didn’t have any convincing explanation for it, and no archeologist had any justification or explanation about these strange cultural materials before. Now, with this importa discovery, it became clear that we are witnessing the bold presence of the 400-year-old Bronze Age in an area at least one kilometer long and spanning several hectares, which will undoubtedly be explored in the next seasons, in the pre-history of Ray and in the distance from the abandonme of the ancie hill of Cheshme Ali. We will look at the dimensions and quality of this ideified prehistoric period.
Afrond of this importa archeological discovery, emphasizing the need to register the ancie city of Rey as a priority, made this request to the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts:
The ancie and famous city of Ray, which has been the capital or one of the most importa historical cities of Iran at various times; But unfortunately, its magnifice cultural and civilizational heritage has been heavily destroyed, assaulted and vandalized in the last hundred years and even to this day, and as a result of the destruction of the major part of this magnifice heritage, there is no replaceme with the construction and passage of the Imam Ali highway through the heart of this ancie city. The drying up of the Ali spring and the nationally registered Soren historical stream as a result of the construction of the 6th subway line, the destruction and destruction of the promine historical features of Fatah Alishahi, Mou Tabarak, Tobarak Castle, Sadr Islamic Tombs And… and the encroachme on the area and privacy of Bibi Shahrabano’s historical tomb, the historical tower-tomb by Ray’s old ceme factories and Tehran’s ceme complex, and recely the destruction and encroachme of Ray municipality on the area of the national monume of the mouain of Naqarakhane and the historical cemetery of Zirin Ray, and also The eastern fro of the historical city of Ray has occurred in the surrounding gardens, put it on the first priority of the “World Registration Waiting List” and issue a firm and life-saving order to revive and save this famous historical city and the Islamic era and consume energy and spirit. To gra noble and oppressed people a glorious ray.
