被焚之城

沙赫里索克塔意为“焚毁之城”，坐落于伊朗东南部的锡斯坦－俾路支斯坦省，赫尔曼德河河畔，为大型青铜器时代的考古遗址，与吉罗夫特文化息息相关。沙赫里索克塔建造于公元前3200年，目前仅遗留了土坯古城和大量的考古发现，代表着伊朗东部复杂社会群体的出现。在公元前1800年这里人口众多，分为几大不同的区域，包括居住区、工业区、墓地等，由于水源和天气的变化最终使得城市在第2千年被遗弃。大量深埋于地下的物品被挖掘出土，由于气候干燥，一直保存完好，使得这片区域成为研究公元前三千年社会群体的最理想之地。

Shahr-i Sokhta, meaning ‘Burnt City’, is located at the junction of Bronze Age trade routes crossing the Iranian plateau. The remains of the mudbrick city represent the emergence of the first complex societies in eastern Iran. Founded around 3200 BC, it was populated during four main periods up to 1800 BC, during which time there developed several distinct areas within the city: those where monuments were built, and separate quarters for housing, burial and manufacture. Diversions in water courses and climate change led to the eventual abandonment of the city in the early second millennium. The structures, burial grounds and large number of significant artefacts unearthed there, and their well-preserved state due to the dry desert climate, make this site a rich source of information regarding the emergence of complex societies and contacts between them in the third millennium BC.

国别	伊朗 Iran (Islamic Republic of)
中文名称	被焚之城
英文名称	Shahr-i Sokhta
遗产类别	文化遗产
登录年份	2014
选入标准	(ii)(iii)(iv)