Tomb discovered in Seleucid Greek city in Iran

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Archaeologists announced on Saturday that they discovered a tomb believed to be the tomb of a Seleucid satrap or general in Iran’s Hamedan region.

According to the senior archaeologist Mohsen Khanjan, who leads the excavation, they have discovered a tomb, which is probably the burial place of one of the satraps, ILNA reported. And, according to archaeologists, this burial site provides an extraordinary insight into Hellenistic life in west-central Iran.

The discovery of this tomb can be of great help to archaeologists in illuminating the dark corners of the Seleucid period on the Iranian plateau.

The archaeologist said the recent discovery may be a clue for the detection of Seleucid burial rituals in Iran or even their inspirations from Iranians of the time.

“Due to the scarcity of the so-far discovered Seleucid works in Iran, we do not know much about the architecture of Greek dwellings and their burial customs.”

According to him, in addition to a Greek inscription, other significant objects such as bronze statues of Greek gods, a stone altar, column head, column shaft, column base, and pottery pieces had been discovered in the Dokhaharan neighborhood.

Source - https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discover-a-seleucid-satrap-tomb-in-the-ancient-greek-seleucids-city-of-nahavand-in-iran/

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The fact that Greek influence extended from Magna Graecia to Egypt, the Middle East, Persia and into India itself - thousands of years before railways and in a time when people weren't aware how many continents actually there were is mindblowing to me. Greek is widely known to be the cradle of Western civilization, but still doesn't feel like it gets enough credit. Not to mention all its colonies on the shores of the Mediteranean and the Black Sea.