Contact Admin. Around the world 21 million women, men and children are forced into slavery. The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery focuses on the eradication of slavery in its contemporary forms including the worst forms of child labor, forced marriage and all forms of human trafficking. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. Habib Asefi, the governor of Dezful, in southern Iran, announced that the old parts of this historic city, covering acres, is being demolished.
Dezful is an ancient city that contains some of the unique and beautiful samples of pre-Islamic and especially Sassanid period of Iranian history. Nasser Khorrami, the dean of the Azad University, while presenting some of more famous historic sites of the city, including a years old bridge, water mills, and the Choghamish Hill where is recognized as the birth place of written texts , told the seminar that if these unique sites would not be preserved, the county would lose some important parts of its historical identity.
The Historical Heritage Organization has announced that it has is no budget for preservation of the old sections of Dezful city and needs the contributions of the private sector. Thus, with the lack of any budget to save the historic sections of Dezful, the demise of such historic sites had gain an ever-increasing speed.
The team reported that the excavation work has shown that the settlement, which is now home to the small Kurdish village of Bassetki in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, was established in about BC and was able to flourish for more than years. The archaeologists have also discovered that the settlement layers dating back from the Akkadian Empire period BC. The Akkadian empire is regarded as the first world empire in human history.
Hasan Qasim from the Directorate of Antiquities in Dohuk. The team conducted the excavation work in Bassetki between August and October and was able to preempt the construction work on a highway on this land as reported by CNN and Past Horizons website.
