The Institute for Cultural Heritage and Tourism announced the drafting of the Atlas of the subsidence of the coury’s archaeological artifacts at a special meeting of climate change in cultural heritage, attended by a group of experts and professors.
The Climate Change Meeting with Dabiri Aminollah Kamali was held at the Cultural Heritage Research Institute, and Mehdi Zare, a professor at the eire Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, expressed concern over the expansion of land subsidence in the coury:
This phenomenon not only threatens Iran’s valuable cultural heritage, but can also affect the stimulation of active faults.
Zare, referring to the critical situation in Marvdasht Fars province, stated:
In the vicinity of the ancie site of Naghsh Rostam (the tomb of the Achaemenid kings and the Kaaba of Zoroastrianism) due to the widespread agriculture and livestock and the coinuation of rice and corn cultivation, water harvesting from underground sources coinues. This has caused subsidence of 2 meters from Rostam’s role and 2 to 5 meters of Persepolis, which are visible as huge gaps.
He added.
In the Marvdasht Plain, the subsidence rate has reached about 2 to 5 cm a year in rece years. The situation coinues while the amou of harvesting from the groundwater resources of the plain is more than its feeding.
Zare called for urge measures to corol unnecessary perceptions of groundwater resources and revision of agricultural policies as a solution to preve the iensification of subsidence crisis and threats.
Masoumeh Amigppi, head of the Departme of Radiation and Radar Ierference by the coury’s Mapping Organization, referring to the critical situation of land subsidence in Iran, said:
This phenomenon has now become a serious threat to aiquities, food security and the coury’s natural resources. In this regard, the coury’s mapping organization has prepared subsidence atlas for differe parts of the coury. These atlas ideify high -risk areas using radar ierference data and accurate balance and provide information needed for crisis manageme.
Amiqp also emphasized the need for cooperation between releva organizations to protect the coury’s cultural heritage and suggested that Atlas subsidence of iernal and global archaeological artifacts be to be threatened with ideification and necessary conservation measures.
Hamid Fada’i, a faculty member of the Institute of Conservation and Restoration, warned of the expansion of land subsidence in Fars province and its effects on the cultural and agricultural heritage of the region.
He poied out that Fars province, especially its fertile plains, played an importa role in supplying grains in the coury, stating:
Today, these areas are at risk and most of it is due to human activity. Rice cultivation, for example, is not part of the historical ideity of the area, and today it has been damaged and should be preveed.
Fada’i emphasized:
During the Achaemenid era, Fars province was known as the supplier of cereals, vegetables and animal crops, but rice cultivation in the area has not been recorded.
He added.
Importa crops and inaccurate agricultural policies, along with rece droughts, have become a public threat to the region’s water and agricultural resources.
Assista Professor of Natural Heritage at the Cultural Heritage Research Institute also emphasized the importance of paying atteion to the capacities of cultural heritage and handicrafts in these areas and said:
Heritage and handicrafts are capable of being supplied in these areas, but we have forgotten them and only consider the developme of large industries.
Fada’i called for a revision in the agricultural and developme policies of Fars province and emphasized the need for cultural heritage and sustainable exploitation of natural resources.
