If you visit the National Museum of Tehran, you will probably
see the showcase where the salt man is located. This salt man is one of a total
of six mummies discovered in the Chehrabad salt mines, located on the southern
part of the Hamzehlu village, on the west side of the city of Zanjan, in the
Zanjan Province in Iran. In the winter of 1993, when the workers were
excavating and extracting salt from a mine near the hills of this area, they
encountered a corpse. By performing some experiments on the
dead body of salt man, this result was obtained that the corpse dates
back to 1700 years ago. Archaeological studies on the salt
man show that due to the special arrangement of long-headed hair, the presence
of gold earrings in the left ear, leather boots and texture of the cloth, the corpse
was not a simple miner's worker, but a high-ranking person with a high social
base. But the cause of his presence, death and death in the Chahar Abad salt
mine remains unclear. The salt man whose
body appears in glass compartments, is one of the most important attractions of
the ancient Iranian museum that is well worth visiting.
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| Salt man, National Museum, Iran |
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