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Name：Bam and its Cultural Landscape
Area：South Asia
Country：Iran, Islamic Republic of
Registered Year：2004
Type：Natural Heritage
Criteria：(vii)(viii)
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Brief Description：
Bam is situated in a desert environment on the southern edge of the Iranian high plateau. The origins of Bam can be detected to the Achaemenid period (6 th to 4 th cent. B.C.). Its heyday was from the 7 th to 11 th centuries, being at the crossroads of important trade routes and known for the production of silk and cotton garments. The existence of life in the oasis was based on the underground irrigation canals, the qan ? ts, of which Bam has preserved some of the earliest evidence in Iran. Arg-e Bam is the most representative example of a fortified medieval town built in vernacular technique using mud layers (Chineh).
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