Achemenid find in Fars

The second phase of archeological excavations in Nourabad-Mamasani located in the southern Fars province of Iran has revealed the existence of a government center in the ancient site.

"The excavations revealed three staircases, a terrace partition adorned with 15 battlements similar to the ones in Apadana terrace in Takht-e Jamshid (Persepolis),” said Alireza Asgari from Iran’s Archeology Research Center who is supervisor of the Iranian-Australian archeological team along with Daniel Potts from Australia’s Sydney University.

The project, which started on December 31, 2007, has also found Achemenid columns and pedestals more than a meter thick, decorated with lotus designs and palm-leaf grooves. Two 10-by-10-meter rooms, a marble staircase and vessels belonging to the same period were a part of the discovered cache, notes a story, datelined February 24, 2008 from Iran Press TV has been forwarded by the Zoroastrian News Agency.