Tourist Information Of Iran | Salt Men of Iran In Shahrabad

Tourist Information Of Iran | Salt Men of Iran In Shahrabad. The first salt mummy, dated 300 AD, discovered in 1993, sporting a long white beard, iron knives and a single gold earring. While bulldozing Chehrabad salt from salt mines, miners Iran recently discovered "salt man" the sixth can be found in the last fifteen years. In 2004 the other mummies found just 50 meters away, followed by another in 2005 and "teenagers" mummy boy later that year. The oldest male found salt really old and has been carbon dated to 9550 BC. This "salt man" is actually an ancient corpse killed or destroyed in the cave and the mummified by the extreme conditions. Hair, flesh and bone all preserved with salinity dry cave, and even internal organs such as stomach and colon have been found intact.

"I think it's quite possible that the discovery of ancient 'a salt' is also preserved in the northwest of Iran is the basis for St. Jerome's account of the 'satyr' preserved in salt and examined by the Emperor Constantine and many other curious visitors in Antioch," wrote the Mayor. Image classical satyr was similar, with the same hair and beard, snub nose and protruding jaw. folklorist Adrienne Mayor of Stanford University thinks there might be another layer to the story that has drawn from his salt. He thought maybe a mummy from ancient myths such satire. "Obviously, satyrs is a mythical creature, "said the Mayor, but suggests that the human head that has been preserved in salt bears" are very similar to the depiction of satyrs of ancient Greece and Rome. "

As of 2008, the Ministry of Industry and Mines of Iran to cancel the mining permit Chehrabad Salt Mine and declare the site of archaeological research center so that more work could be done to recruit and retain the other salt men. While four of salt had been diverted to the Zanjan Archaeology Museum and one to the National Museum of Iran in Tehran (all can be viewed by the public), his final salt remains in-situ, half-trapped in a mountain of salt.