If you are going to travel to Zanjan these days, don’t miss visiting the Zanjan Archeology museum which is located in Zolfaghari historical building. Zanjan Archeology museum includes three different parts such as Pre-historical time, historical time and Islam history time that in each part you can find things related to that time like Noore Soltanieh hill, pottery bowl, a place to keep flour, head of the arrow and simple swords, star-like tile, copper dishes and etc. One of the most attractive parts of this museum is the salt men museum which keeps the mummies known as salt men that returns to 2000 years ago. Chehrabad salt mines in Zanjan conclude 6 mummies which were found while drilling and extracting salt. The first explored mummy was connected to a half-body corpse that had beard, long hair and a gold earring in his/her left ear. Next to this mummy, there were some other things like a piece of basket, wooden nails and green ropes which were found while excavation was taking place in winter 1372 Hijri calendar and After archeological researches, they were sent to Cultural heritage organization (protection and restoration historical monuments institute) in order to find their antiquity. The age of salt men 1 and 2 returns to 1700 years ago according to aging experiments) late Parthian and first Sassanid) and salt men 3,4 and 5 returns to 2300 years ago related to Achaemenid. After 11 years, miners faced skeletal debris of second and third salt men mummy in Chehrabad Zanjan Mine which was decomposed. The fourth mummy of this mine was a 16-year-old guy with 175 cm height. It was one of the completed ones that had silver rings on his/her ears. One of this mummy’s remarkable features is that he/she has full clothes on and leather shoes in feet. The fifth explored mummy’s body was buried under rocks and debris like the others, except its head. The sixth mummy is still in the Chehrabad Mine because of not having digging permission which it’s skull returns to Sassanid. For visiting the other sightseeing of Zanjan like Soltanieh Dome, Katleh Khor Cave, Rakhtshuykhaneh, etc. you can go to our website: www. Alaedin.travel and book a tour and hotel. We guarantee a pleasure staying with a warm-hearted welcome in Iran. We promise that traveling to Iran with Alaeddin travel will set a memorable time in your mind that you will never forget for the rest of your life. You will enjoy beauties and wonders of Iran.
