Eskandari Mound and Surrounding Mounds

🕰️When was it built?

Pottery and stone tools found here indicate occupation from the 7th to the 1st millennium BC. The complex was nationally listed on 22 December 1969 under number 886.

🏛️What was it built for?

Archaeological mounds form as layers of occupation and building accumulate over long periods. Archaeologists use these layers, pottery and tools to reconstruct past settlement. Flint and obsidian tools are among the stone finds here.

👀What you will see

• The central mound belongs to an area that has undergone archaeological survey and test excavation.
• Surrounding mounds make this more than a single rise in the ground. View the extent of the complex from permitted routes.

💡Something interesting

Jahangir Yasi excavated here in summer 1968, and Alan Zagarell also worked on the mounds in 1978. A survey in 1996 also found an inscription in Elamite cuneiform, strengthening discussion of continued occupation in later periods.

🎒Good to know before you go

• The mounds are about 1 km from Hafshejan. Wear suitable shoes for uneven ground.
• Do not collect anything, dig, or enter excavation trenches or enclosed areas.