Despite the ruthless epidemic, which impedes the fieldwork, research stays, and conference trips, the autumnal meeting of underwater archaeologists in Warsaw has been confirmed!
Archeowieści is a media partner of the conference.
Poster of the 4th Warsaw Seminar on Underwater Archaeology (photo: Jacek Twardowski, project: Jerzy Nicman)
The cruel commander Malek Ashraf attacked the town of Bavanat in 1342, during the civil war in Iran. The inhabitants of the town had hidden in a cave located nearby. Since their shelter was difficult to access the soldiers made a great fire at the entrance to the cave. The refugees could try to jump over the fire, straight into the hands of the attacking forces, but most were suffocated with the smoke. Modern archaeologists reveal tragic mysteries of the massacre by analysing burned bones found in the Kan-Gohar Cave.
Human remains (and animal bone) from Iran’s Kan-Gohar cave, currently at the Forensic Medicine Centre of Fars Province photo: Mahsa Najafi