Historical place profile

Shahr-e Sukhteh

A Bronze Age urban settlement, associated with the Jiroft culture, located in Sistan and Baluchistan provinces in the southeastern part of Iran. The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:377547413
Catalogue ID
pleiades:377547413
Place type
archaeological-site, settlement
Coordinates
30.595718, 61.327109
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

A Bronze Age urban settlement, associated with the Jiroft culture, located in Sistan and Baluchistan provinces in the southeastern part of Iran. The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Pleiades

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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