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...Archaelogists speculate that Tepe Yahya could be the "Magan" referred to as a trading center in Sumerian texts...
Tablets with the same form of writing had been discovered before at the ancient city of Susa on the Persian Gulf. The tablets discovered at Tepe Yahya are the first ever found in Iran, and the first found together with blank tablets-evidence for their independent origin at Tepe Yahya...
...mound of Tepe Yahya, where the finds were made, has been the site of excavations for the past four summers. The most important discoveries last summer-an administration building and writing-date to about 3500 B.C., 1000 years earlier than civilization had been known to exist in the area...
Last summer's finds indicate that the civilization at Tepe Yahya arose independently, trading with the other two centers...
Lamberg-Karlovsky plans to return to Tepe Yahya with an expanded staff next summer. He intends to concentrate on the Neolithic part of the mound...