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Key facts
- Type
- settlement
- Periods
- Bronze Age , Iron Age
- Location
- Fars province , Iran
- Built
- 4th millennium BC
- Excavation dates
- 1968–1978, 1999, 2000
- Archaeologists
- William Sumner, Kamyar Abdi
- Condition
- Ruined
- Owner
- Public
- Public access
- Yes
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of Anshan within the Elamite empire. The approximate Bronze Age extension of the Persian Gulf is shown.
Anshan (Elamite cuneiform: 𒀭𒍝𒀭 Anzan; Sumerian: 𒀭𒊓𒀭𒆠 Ansanᴷᴵ, 𒀭𒊭𒀭𒆠 Anšanᴷᴵ) modern Tall-e Malyan (Persian: تل ملیان), also Tall-i Malyan, was an Elamite and ancient Persian city. It was located in the Zagros Mountains in southwestern Iran, approximately 46 kilometres (29 mi) north of Shiraz and 43 kilometres (27 mi) west of Persepolis in the Beyza/Ramjerd plain, in the province of Fars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anshan Persia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.