VP Felicitates Registration Of Burnt City As World Heritage

Tehran, June 23, IRNA – Vice-President and Head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization Masoud Soltanifar felicitated registration of the Burnt City in the list of World Heritage to the Supreme Leader, the President and the whole Iranians. Soltanifar said here on Sunday afternoon that with hard work of the organizationˈs experts, the city was registered as World Heritage in the 38th session of the UNESCO in Doha, Qatar, with overwhelming votes of participants in the meeting. Burnt City is an ancient city in Iran located 56 kilometers from Zabol on Zabol – Zahedan Road in eastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan. The great city was established concurrent with Bronze Age associated with Jiroft Civilization and Iranians lived there 6000 years ago. Based on the archeological studies, the city sprawls in an area measuring 280 hectares, 80 hectares of which was residential areas./end