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A salt mine in Iran preserved six ancient miners
Since 1993, miners at Chehrabad near Zanjan have uncovered the naturally mummified bodies of six men. Some date from the Achaemenid period (550–330 BCE), the rest from Parthian and Sasanian times; most died when mine galleries collapsed. The head and left foot of the first “Saltman” are in the National Museum of Iran in Tehran.
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Original sources
- Wikipedia. Saltmen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltmen
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum. The Salt Men of Zanjan. https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/archaeologie/forschung/projekte/zanjan.html.en