{"id":7663,"date":"2009-02-20T11:38:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=7663"},"modified":"2015-02-26T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T11:40:23","slug":"pre-parthian-underground-city-discovered-in-hamedan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/pre-parthian-underground-city-discovered-in-hamedan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Parthian Underground City Discovered in Hamedan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nHamadan Province in western Iran has yielded an underground city, which is believed by archeologists to date back to pre-Parthian eras. Archeologists found 25 of the underground citys rooms, halls and corridors in a 4-meter-deep site in Samen located in Malayer County in Hamadan Province. The hand-dug stone structure, which was first identified two years ago, seems to have been a secret place for performing Mithraic rituals. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/images\/news\/hamedan.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-Parthian Underground City Discovered in Hamedan\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have found earthenware at the site, which have been sent for carbon 14 dating tests,\u201d said head of the archeology team, Ali Khaksar. Archeologists also found some Parthian squat burials, which suggest the possibility that site was used as a burial ground by the Parthians. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome 54 human skeletons were found, which were buried along with some objects,\u201d said anthropologist, Farzad Forouzanfar.<br \/>\nStudies also showed that the city was used as a secret haven during the Seljuk, Ilkhanid, Timurid and Safavid eras.<br \/>\n\u201cThe underground city has different entries and a number of openings have been created on its top to let in light and air,\u201d explained Khaksar. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudies also showed that the inhabitants used torches and oil lamps to light the rooms,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamadan Province in western Iran has yielded an underground city, which is believed by archeologists to date back to pre-Parthian eras. Archeologists found 25 of the underground citys rooms, halls and corridors in a 4-meter-deep site in Samen located in Malayer County in Hamadan Province. The hand-dug stone structure, which was first identified two years&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1061,7,9,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,1063,26,29],"tags":[370,1294,1296,1295],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-iran","category-culture","category-explore-iran-cities","category-iran","category-iran-gps-maps","category-iran-history","category-iran-news","category-iran-provinces","category-iranmap-site","category-irans-cultural-heritage","category-maps-of-iran","category-persian-literature","category-photos-from-iran-2","tag-hamedan","tag-pre-parthian","tag-pre-parthian-city","tag-pre-parthian-underground-city","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7664,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}