Despite warnings by ICHTO, the 6000-year-old historical site of Shad Qoli in Qom was destroyed by the order of the province’s governor office. (CHN Press)
Mehr News reported on the destruction:
Bulldozers working for the Ammar Yasser construction project in Qom have entirely demolished the 6000-year-old Shad Qoli archaeological site in central Iran, the Persian service of CHN reported on Tuesday.
“The license for excavation of the area was issued by the Archaeological Research Center of Iran (ARCI) two years ago at a time when approximately half of the site had already been flattened,” said Siamak Sarlak, director of the team which was to have conducted salvage operations at the location.
“According to the cultural heritage regulations in Iran, the Governor General’s Office of Qom, which is in charge of the Ammar Yasser construction project, was responsible for sponsoring salvage excavations. However, the office refused to provide the necessary funds for carrying out the excavation work and we have recently been informed that the remainder of the site has been completely destroyed by bulldozers,” he added.
The salvage team needed a sum of 50 million rials (about $5250) to excavate the site.
“A dispute arose over which organization -- the governor’s office or the ARCI -- was responsible for funding the operation. Meanwhile the bulldozers continued the process of destruction, which has resulted in total loss of the archaeological significance of the area,” Sarlak explained.
The whole city of Quom should be bulldozed someday...
ReplyDeleteWell we see that the Shia elite and the Sunni elite have something in common, they don't like history. I guess that would be natural since they've not done much for that history since 700AD. Whoever takes over the Persian state from the current crop of destroyers should put up a plaque that says "Here stood an heirloom of mankind, destroyed by those who offered nothing to history in return!"
ReplyDeleteYou will not hear a word about this out of the MSM. You will also not hear a word about it out of the UN, any of those holier then thou NGO's, the LLL's in the west, the nutroots and their Democratic party puppets.
ReplyDeleteThey will never say anything bad about their Islamofascist allies and heroes.