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The skeletal remains of several hundred bodies piled high behind a ruin wall are testimony to the terrible tragedy that unfolded in the ancient city of the Seven Mounds. Archaeologists have uncovered artifacts and bodies at the site of Haft Tappeh in Iran, revealing a deadly unknown event 3,400 years ago.
Archaeologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have issued a press release describing how they have made great strides since 2003 in uncovering the many structures and historical development of the ancient city. However, the recent discovery of a mass grave with hundreds of bodies has confirmed there are many questions yet to be answered at Haft Tappeh.
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Vaulted royal tomb of Haft Teppah (Haft Tepe). (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Mysterious Mass Grave
The press release reports: “A team of archaeologists from Mainz University headed by Dr. Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi recently discovered that the city’s population fell victim to a massacre at the end of the settlement phase. They found a mass grave containing the skeletal remains of several hundred people in a street between the dwellings of the final building layer. The dead had simply been haphazardly piled one on top of another behind a wall.”
