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"In a historic event for archaeology and Iranian heritage, the Prehistoric
Sites of the Khorramabad Valley were officially inscribed on the UNESCO World
Heritage List at the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in
Paris on July 11, 2025. It is the first time that a Paleolithic site in Iran
has ever appeared on the prestigious list, marking an important milestone in
the global recognition of early human history in the Zagros Mountains.
Situated in the western Zagros mountain range, the Khorramabad Valley has been
an important cultural and ecological corridor between Mesopotamia, the Iranian
Plateau, and Central Asia for millennia. “Its karst landscape is rugged and
hard,” states Ata Hasanpour, Director General of Lorestan’s Cultural Heritage,
Tourism and Handicrafts Department, “but it is home to caves and rock shelters
that inform us about 60,000 years of human activity, from Middle Paleolithic
times to the Bronze Age.
The UNESCO inscription includes five scientifically verified archaeological
sites: Yafteh, Ghamari, Kunji, Gilvaran, and Gar Arjeneh, which collectively
provide an extraordinary and continuous cultural sequence. The sites give
invaluable information about the development of human behavioral and adaptive
processes through tens of millennia, from mobile hunter-gatherers to
increasingly complex and sedentary societies."
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