Archaeologists discovered human remains, 60 whole, well-preserved skeletons in nine rooms, which also served as the underground tombs.
Remains of an underground city, thought to be over 2,000 years old, were unearthed in present day Samen, located roughly 400 kilometers west of Iran’s modern-day capital, Tehran.
The ancient city is thought to have been built between the fall of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC) and rise of the Parthian Empire (247 BC-224 AD), according to Ali Khaksar, the head of the provincial office of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization.
