Word: tepes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Archaelogists speculate that Tepe Yahya could be the "Magan" referred to as a trading center in Sumerian texts...
...Tepe Yahya gets its name from a Persian king who, according to legend, forbade a certain marriage, whereupon the people rose in revolt, cut off his head, and buried it in the mound...
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...