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	Sialk - Biocrawler
		Sialk is the world's oldest ziggurat (http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=1578) (2) (http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=356), tucked away in the suburbs of the city of Kashan, in central Iran.
		Sialk is one of four ziggurats built by the Elamite civilization (http://www.allempires.com/empires/elamite/elamite1.htm).
		Sialk predates the ziggurats of Iraq, but the significance of the other two ziggurats of Iran, particularly the ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil in southwestern Iran (http://www.choghazanbil.ir/english/eindex.aspx), are their relatively well preserved state.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sialk (663 words)

	Ziggurats Iraq - Sialk - Choqa Zanbil - Crystalinks
		Sialk is a large ancient archeological structure in Kashan, Iran.It is claimed to be the world's oldest ziggurat, dating to the 3rd millennium BC, tucked away in the suburbs of the city of Kashan, in central Iran, close to Fin Garden.
		Sialk is one of four ziggurats built by the Elamite civilization.
		Sialk, and the entire area around it, is thought to have first originated as a result of the pristine large water sources nearby that still run today.
	www.crystalinks.com /pyramidiraq.html (877 words)

	Qwika - Sialk
		Sialk is one of four ziggurats built by the Elamite civilization.
		Sialk is thus the 32nd and most recent ziggurat of Mesopotamia to be discovered.
		The Sialk ziggurat has 3 platforms, and although the ziggurat itself was built in 2900 BC, it still predates Urnamu's Ziggurat at Ur, which was built in 2100 BC.
	wikipedia.qwika.com /wiki/Sialk (853 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Historical preservation, Nima Kasraie
		In Sialk, on the other hand, what we see is a sign saying: "Please do not touch objects", and next to it another sign saying: "Items excavated here belong to the Stone Age".
		But the painful reality is that Sialk is just one of thousands of structures of antiquity in Iran plundered by colonialists, thieves, incompetent authorities, and time itself.
		The Sialk ziggurat at least has a guard or two protecting it, and Cultural Heritage Organization (hopefully) pays for the rope that supposedly prevents visitors from stealing the numerous excavated pieces.
	www.iranian.com /History/2004/April/Sialk/index.html (815 words)

	Teppe Sialk - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sialk is a large ancient archeological structure in Kashan, Iran.
		Sialk is the 32nd and most recent ziggurat to be discovered.
		Sialk, and the entire area around it, is thought to have first originated as a result of the pristine large water sources nearby that still run today.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Sialk (712 words)

	Iran News - "First houses in Sialk built 7500 years ago" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sialk Tepe was the first ancient tepe in Iran which was excavated by archaeologists.
		Sadeq Malek Shahmirzadi, the head of the excavation team, said that the northern hill of Sialk was studied during the last season of excavations.
		Sialk Tepe is located in the city of Kashan in central Iran, surrounded by many residential houses.
	www.iranmania.com /News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=39039&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs (537 words)

	Sialk - Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sialk is a large ancient archeological structure near Kashan, Iran.
		It is claimed to be the world's oldest ziggurat, dating to the 5th millennium BC, tucked away in the suburbs of the city of Kashan, in central Iran, close to Fin Garden.
		CHN report: "Sialk Ziggurat, the Oldest in the World, Iranian Archeologist".
	216.92.11.22 /encyclopedia/Sialk (808 words)

	Historic Sialk Left to be Destroyed - CAIS Archaeological & Cultural News of Iran©
		Sadeq Malek Shahmirzadi, leading the Sialk excavation team, told ISNA that a five-year project had already been implemented on the ancient hill.
		Sialk is the oldest historical site in the Central Plateau, he said, recalling that a five-year project had been devised in 2001 to continue excavation work.
		The archaeological site of Tappeh Sialk is an important Early Neolithic site near the modern town of Kashan in Iran, with occupations dated to as early as 6000 BC.
	www.cais-soas.com /news/2006/March2006/03-03-historical.htm (302 words)

	CHN \| News
		A big clay vessel belonging to the prehistoric epoch was accidentally unearthed by a farmer in the vicinity of Sialk prehistoric hill.
		Sialk Tepe which dates back to more than 8000 years ago is one of the most important pre-historic sites in Iran, located in the city of Kashan, Isfahan province.
		Sialk Tepe prehistoric site is now located inside the perimeters of Kashan surrounded by many residential houses constructed in the area illegally.
	www.chnpress.com /news/?section=2&id=7023 (327 words)

	Iran News - Sialk 6000-year-old secrets to be revealed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sialk Tepe which dates back to more than 8000 years ago is one of the most important historical sites of Iran, located in Kashan city.
		Some big clay jars, a giant earthen monument as ziggurat, the skeletons of a man and a girl who were most probably buried under debris due to an earthquake, and hundreds of other historical evidence have been unearthed during the excavations.
		He excavated Sialk very systematically, but the facilities for archaeological excavations were limited at his time.
	www.iranmania.com /News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=38585&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs (637 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Sialk is a large ancient archeological site near Kashan, Iran.
		CHN report: "Sialk 6000-year-old Secrets to be Revealed".
		Image:Ghirshman team.jpgGhirshman's team in Sialk in 1934: Sitting from R to L: Roman Ghirshman, Tania Ghirshman, and Dr. Contenau.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Sialk (729 words)

	Gardener stumbles on large pot near 7500-year-old Sialk Tepe
		Sialk Tepe has been surrounded by houses that have been constructed illegally over the few past years.
		Located in the suburbs of the city of Kashan, Sialk Tepe was excavated for the first time by French archaeologist Roman Ghirshman and his team in 1933 and then again in 1934 and 1937.
		Sialk was eventually abandoned at the end of the Iron Age, before the advent of the Medes.
	www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=454999 (328 words)

	CHN \| News
		Sialk historical tepe is the first historical hill which has been excavated by the archaeologists.
		Since Sialk Tepe is now located inside the perimeters of Kashan city and many residential houses surround it, the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization of Iran has presented a project to clear up the Sialk area.
		Sialk Tepe, located in Kashan city, dates back to more than 8000 years ago and is one of the most important historical sites of Iran.
	www.chnpress.com /news/?section=2&id=6056 (374 words)

	Iran Heritage
		In Sialk, on the other hand, we see is a sign saying: "Lotfan be ashyaa' dast nazaneed" (please do not touch excavated items), and next to it another sign saying: "items excavated here belong to stone age".
		One cannot help but imagine that if Sialk were located in Tennessee, the ziggurat would have been fully preserved by 3 layers of vacuum sealed Mission Impossible type weathering protection systems, if not rebuilt and restored altogether like the cathedrals in Europe.
		The Sialk ziggurat at least has a guard or two protecting it, and Iran National Heritage Organization (hopefully) pays for the rope that supposedly prevents visitors from stealing the numerous excavated pieces.
	www.iran-heritage.org /interestgroups/archeology-article1.htm (790 words)

	Proto-Elamite at AllExperts
		Sialk is one of the remaining proto-elamite ruins in Iran.
		Some anthropologists such as John Alden maintain that Proto-Elamite influence grew rapidly at the end of the 4th millennium BC and declined equally rapidly with the establishment of maritime trade in the Persian Gulf several centuries later.
		The majority of the Sialk tablets are also not proto-Elamite strictly speaking, but belong to the period of close contact between Mesopotamia and Iran, presumably corresponding to Uruk V - IV.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pr/proto-elamite.htm (904 words)

	Sailk And Ilam civilisation
		"Sialk" dwellers had been making all of their tools and instruments by stone, but little-by-little they had started to use metal for making their implements.
		Explorations about civilization belonging to "Sialk," "Hasanlue," "MarIik," and "Ziwiye" showed that metal work was widespread among the people of these areas and that the artisans of this races were skillful artists.
		Everything in these earthens, the strength of their paste, kilning temperature, enameled color surface, designs and styles which have symbolic values are novel, each sign symbolized a man, some of these earthens were used in shrouding and burial ceremonies.
	www.awti.org /history/pre-history-civilisation-gilan.htm (1251 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Its charm is thus mainly due to the contrast between the parched immensities of the deserts and the greenery of the well-tended oasis.
		Archeological discoveries in the Sialk Hillocks which lie 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Kashan reveal that this region was one of the primary centers of civilization in pre-historic ages.
		The artifacts uncovered at Sialk reside in the Louvre in Paris and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Iran's National Museum.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Kashan (698 words)

	Finds of The Late 2nd & Early 1st Millennium BCE at Sialk - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		Perhaps the group buried at Sialk was less affluent than the nobles interred at Marlik; perhaps these graves at Sialk were made somewhat earlier, when less ostentation was practiced in every respect.
		Two periods were distinguished in the late levels at Sialk: Periods A and B, which were also given the Roman numbers V and VI in the sequence of levels that begins with the first prehistoric settlement of Level I at Sialk.
		The smaller size of the figures from Sialk may again be due to the lesser wealth of the people buried there.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Art/porada/porada-siyalk.htm (955 words)

	NTU Info Centre: Sialk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Image Unavailable Sialk is the world's oldest ziggurat (2), tucked away in the suburbs of the city of Kashan, in central Iran.
		Image Unavailable Sialk is one of four ziggurats built by the Elamite civilization.
		Image Unavailable What little is left of the two crumbling Sialk ziggurats is now threatened by the encroaching suburbs of the expanding city of Kashan.
	www.nowtryus.net /article:Sialk (543 words)

	Chalice Decorated with Leopards \| Musée du Louvre
		Footed vessels were found both in Tepe Sialk on the edge of the Kavir Desert and at Tepe Hissar east of the Caspian Sea.
		The chalices of Tepe Sialk and Tepe Hissar
		It is amusing to observe a kind of contradiction between the simplified way in which the leopards' bodies have been rendered and the extreme realism with which the animals' tails are depicted, with their curling tips emphasized and fur meticulously evoked by small streaks of color.
	www.louvre.fr /llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225243&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673225243&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500803&fromDept=false&baseIndex=1&bmUID=1140203506965 (670 words)

	Experts try to discover diet of 7,000 years ago in Sialk
		Located at the edge of the central desert of Iran, near "Kashan", Sialk is considered one of most important and archeologically-rich areas in Iran and experts have already discovered artifacts dating from the fifth to first millennium B.C. there.
		Archeologists have already concluded that residents of Sialk had red and white meat as the main source of their nutritious protein, but now they want to find out which kind of meat was prevalent in their diet, announced Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi, discoverer of the ziggurat and head of the research team.
		Experts believe that Sialk dwellers had been making all of their tools and instruments by stone, but little-by-little they had started to use metal for making their implements.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/jul/1177.html (393 words)

	Iranica.com - GIYAN TEPE
		Giyan V C pottery, which can be compared to the pottery of the latter part of the Sialk III period, is in many respects a development of Giyan V B, and many pottery designs are common in both strata.
		Giyan V D is a continuation of Giyan V C, with the appearance of some elements of the H®esáa@r culture close to the end of the Sialk III period, around early 3rd millennium B.C.E., possibly indicating the movement of peoples from the region of H®es@áa@r culture into the Giyan area.
		The end of the painted ware of Giyan V falls sometime between the end of Sialk III 6 and the end of Sialk III, or possibly somewhat later.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v11f1/v11f1008.html (476 words)

	Ziggurats - Crystalinks
		One of the best preserved ziggurats is Choqa Zanbil in western Iran, which has survived despite the devastating eight year Iran-Iraq war of the 1980's in which many archeological sites were destroyed.
		The Sialk, in Kashan, Iran, is the oldest known zigurrat, dating to the early 3rd millennium BCE.
		Ziggurat designs ranged from simple bases upon which a temple sat, to marvels of mathematics and construction which spanned several terraced stories and were topped with a temple.
	www.crystalinks.com /ziggurat.html (1718 words)

	SalamIran- Culture & Tourism, Art and Handicraft of Iran: The Art of Pottery
		The earthen statue of a wild goat excavated in "Kalar Dasht" at the foot of "Alborz" mountain is a sample of the art of pottery of this age.
		The earthen works of Sialk belong to 10th up to 9th century BC More earthenware than any other thing were found in Sialk graves and these made a lot of information accessible.
		Everything in these earthens, the strength of their paste, kilning temperature, enameled color surface, designs and styles which have symbolic values are novel, each sign symbolized a man, some of these earthens were used in shrouding and burial ceremonies.
	www.salamiran.org /IranInfo/Culture/Arts/pottery/index.html (2760 words)

	History of Iran Persia
		Sialk, not far south of modern Tehran, is the site of one of the world's earliest known settlements.
		Here, some of the first stages of what we call civilization developed, and significant progress was made in architecture and graphic design.
		Early Sialk ware, with its geometric and abstract motifs, has in fact curiously "modern" look.
	www.irantour.org /Iran/history/iran-Historical.html (389 words)

	Sialk - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Sialk is the world's oldest ziggurat (2), tucked away in the suburbs of the city of Kashan, in central Iran.
		Sialk predates the ziggurats of Iraq, but the significance of the other two ziggurats of Iran, particularly the ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil in southwestern Iran, are their relatively well preserved state.
		Furthermore, the first arched roof and its covering, which are very important techniques in architecture were invented by the Elamites, and used in the mausoleum of Tepti-ahar around 1360 B.C. (unearthed in the excavations made at Haft Tappeh) nearly 1,500 years before such arches were used by the Romans.(note: Link is not in English)
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1249783 (624 words)

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