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Persiana discovered this in Archaeology
•6 reviews since Feb 21, 2008
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Persiana discovered 5 months ago- 'Red Snake'! The Great Wall of Gorgan - a barrier of awesome scale and sophistication, a defence system against the White Huns, who lived in Central Asia. A view from the air reveals the true proportions of the `Red Snake': photo of fort 7 with its massive platform and the associated ditch. Excerpts from the Current Archaeology page: "It is longer than Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall taken together. It is over a thousand years older than the Great Wall of China as we know it today. It is of more solid construction than its ancient Chinese counterparts. It is the greatest monument of its kind between central Europe and China and it may be the longest brick, or stone, wall ever built in the ancient world. This wall is known as `The Great Wall of Gorgan' or `the Red Snake'. An international team of archaeologists has been at work on the snakelike monument and here they report on their findings." [more..] The impressive build-up of occupation debris in one of the two trenches in fort 4 (trench J) shows that it was intensively occupied for a significant period of time. Note the road with the gully beside, as well as ovens, a brick paving and possible wells. Eberhard Sauer, of the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology: "Our project is seriously challenging our traditional Euro-centric world view. At the time when the Western Roman Empire is collapsing and even the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire under great external pressure, the Sasanian Persian Empire musters the manpower to build and garrison a monument of greater scale than anything comparable in the west. The Persians seem to match, or more than match, their Late Roman rivals in army strength, organisational skills, engineering and water management. Archaeology is beginning to paint a clearer picture of an ancient super power at its apogee."
One of the world's greatest frontier walls Iran's 'Red Snake' Brief overview of the page at ScienceDaily: Excavations In Iran Unravel Mystery Of 'Red Snake'.
You may wish to view the article in Adobe pdf format (interesting images included.) Please note: don't open the following link, because pdf files might hang your browser. Instead download by right clicking on this link and 'save link as'. After the download open the file to view.- 'Red Snake'! The Great Wall of Gorgan - a barrier of awesome scale and sophistication, a defence system against the White Huns, who lived in Central Asia. A view from the air reveals the true proportions of the `Red Snake': photo of fort 7 with its massive platform and the associated ditch. Excerpts from the Current Archaeology page: "It is longer than Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall taken together. It is over a thousand years older than the Great Wall of China as we know it today. It is of more solid construction than its ancient Chinese counterparts. It is the greatest monument of its kind between central Europe and China and it may be the longest brick, or stone, wall ever built in the ancient world. This wall is known as `The Great Wall of Gorgan' or `the Red Snake'. An international team of archaeologists has been at work on the snakelike monument and here they report on their findings." [more..] The impressive build-up of occupation debris in one of the two trenches in fort 4 (trench J) shows that it was intensively occupied for a significant period of time. Note the road with the gully beside, as well as ovens, a brick paving and possible wells. Eberhard Sauer, of the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology: "Our project is seriously challenging our traditional Euro-centric world view. At the time when the Western Roman Empire is collapsing and even the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire under great external pressure, the Sasanian Persian Empire musters the manpower to build and garrison a monument of greater scale than anything comparable in the west. The Persians seem to match, or more than match, their Late Roman rivals in army strength, organisational skills, engineering and water management. Archaeology is beginning to paint a clearer picture of an ancient super power at its apogee."
- RobinEdgar rated 5 days ago
- From the page: "It is longer than Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall taken together. It is over a thousand years older than the Great Wall of China as we know it today. It is of more solid construction than its ancient Chinese counterparts. It is the greatest monument of its kind between central Europe and China and it may be the longest brick, or stone, wall ever built in the ancient world. This wall is known as "The Great Wall of Gorgan" or "the Red Snake". An international team of archaeologists has been at work on the snakelike monument and here they report on their findings."
- tkelly rated 5 days ago
- A fascinating discovery
- T800Joe rated 5 days ago
- You learn something every day.
- barbannco rated 5 months ago
- What a fascinating account.Very interesting.
- pankajsapkal rated 5 months ago
- Amazing. A 195 Km defense wall in Persia that precedes the great wall of China by over 1000 years. Apparently, the wall was built to defend against the White Huns (the Hephthalites). (Interestingly, the White Huns are mentioned in the sncient Sanskrit Indic epic Mahabharata, as "shweta-hun"). Some say it was built shortly after Alexander reached Persia, and other say it could have been built even as late as the 6th century AD.
