Shahr-i Sokhta, meaning ‘Burnt City’, is located at the junction of Bronze Age trade routes crossing the Iranian plateau. The remains of the mudbrick city represent the emergence of the first complex ...

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Reaching its peak in the third millennium BCE, Shahr-i Sokhta was one of the most significant cities of its time on the eastern Iranian plateau, and the board game recovered here has been dated to ...