🏛️ Shahr-i Sokhta

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Shahr-e Sukhteh, c. 3550–2300 BC, also spelled Shahr-e Sūkhté and Shahr-i Sōkhta, is an archaeological site of a sizable Bronze Age urban settlement, associated with the Helmand culture. It is located in Sistan and Baluchistan Province, the southeastern part of Iran, on the bank of the Helmand River, near the Zahedan-Zabol road. It was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in June 2014.

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Shahr-i Sokhta is a cultural World Heritage site in Iran (Islamic Republic of), in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Shahr-i Sokhta was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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