Tuesday, May 30, 2006

It's been a while but. . .NEWS FROM MEHR! Skeletons of Bakun era mother, child resurrected in Bolaghi Valley
The skeleton of a woman hugging a child has been unearthed in the Bolaghi Valley by the joint German-Iranian archaeological team working at the site in Fars Province, the Persian service of CHN reported on Thursday.

The archaeologists believe that the woman is the mother of the child.

“The skeletons date back to the Bakun period (late 5th to early 4th millennium BC) and were discovered in the residential area of the people living during the era,” the head of the Iranian team said.