Talk:Siraf

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Smohijafari 13:53, 17 March 2007 (UTC)Ancient Siraf port is located in 240 km SE of Boushehr port, north coasts of Persian Gulf on today Taheri port. Origin of Ancient Siraf port belongs to pre-Islam history and specially Ashkanian and Sassanian periods. Ancient Siraf civilization was very famous in the world, especially in sailing from Siraf to China and north and east of Africa. At now, one of the famous and beautiful remains of Siraf is 5000 manmade channels on Siraf Mountain that is known as ancient graves because of finding only some buried skeletons on a little of them, whereas many of them are empty from any skeletons. They are quadrangle type with width 50-70 cm, length 2-2.5 m, and high 50-70 cm. many of them are bigger and deeper and some of them are so smaller.After researchs around geology and geoarcheology of Siraf area, for the first time, is indicated that these manmade channels aren't graves, but, they were only small water reservoirs firstly that used as run off and rainfall water catchments system. These, have used for water gathering in raining to storage water in more than 50 deep drinking wells that digged on hard rocks beds!.Many markers and evidences have found in this research that shown these channels firstly had used for water storage by rainfall and run off on them to seepage. At later times (After Islam, because of Siraf great earthquakes on 978 & 1008 A.B), some of them, have used as graves. One of the unique features of Siraf geoarcheology is cutting of 3 meters thickness of Siraf Mountain for using of maximum permeability beds to concentrate their small water reservoirs on permeable beds. These ancient Siraf remains, in the whole of Persian Gulf and Middle East are so unique. In Siraf remains, challenging ancient Siraf peoples with nature to capture raining is one of the most attractive good reserved remains that shows ancient Siraf peoples before Islam history, had native knowledge about Hydrogeology and Geology sciences.

This page is suspect - I don't know of any knowledge of Baghdad before the 8th century, and to believe it was around in 145 AD is a little absurd. Also, Hejira means "migration" - is this a suburb of modern Baghdad where the presumed ruins of a pre-Baghdad city are? In any case, this needs looking into and I cannot correct it; I don't know enough. --Wee Jimmy 09:32, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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