Built in the 5th millennium BC

cultural continuity of 7,000 years

"(...) this serial property composed of four component parts comprises a high density of megalithic structures that showcase Neolithic monumental architecture erected successively over more than two millennia (from approximately 5000 to 2300 BCE)" (AB Ev)

representing the beginnings of urban development in the proto-Elamite and Elamite periods, from the late fifth millennium BCE (OUV)

"Ancient and contemporary livelihood sites, habitations and processing sites, travel routes, named places, trap lines, widely dispersed across the landscape, while being sacred and ceremonial sites, reflect the way they, and their Indigenous ancestors, have made use of this and adjacent landscapes for over 7,000 years" (AB ev)

6,600 years old

"The petroglyphs of the nominated property show a wide range of images engraved by successive generations of local artists, using stone and metal tools, spanning both the prehistoric and historic eras, from 5,000 BCE to the ninth century CE." - AB Evaluation

Rock Art: Sixteen styles and three different periods have been identified: archaic (7,000 - 6,000 BP), bovidian (5,000 - 2,000 BP), and cameline (2,000 BP – present day) (OUV)