UNESCO to register Teimarah petroglyph of Iran

The UNESCO registration file of Teimareh petroglyphs in Iran’s Khomein County of Markazi Province has been filed and follow-up procedures are underway to place this valuable work on the UNESCO list.

According to studies done on the scattering areas of petroglyphs and the diversity of their designs in Markazi, the province is said to have the capacity to be named and introduced as the ‘capital of Iranian petroglyphs’.

In this region, apart from human settlements, over 21,000 petroglyphs and several historical inscriptions related to pre-Islamic and Islamic periods have been identified.

The historians believe that one of the most important and complete collections of petroglyphs in the country is located in Khomein which is the historical symbols, inscriptions, and the prehistoric petroglyphs of the Teimareh region.

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